Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 2 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 3 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
| 4 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 5 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
| 6 | ‘ I wanted him in the first place , ’ said Graham , ‘ but the management had already cast Cy Grant . |
| 7 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 8 | There is a North Region branch of the British Agency for Adoption and Fostering in your area , and I suggest you contact them in the first instance . |
| 9 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 10 | You lost them in the first place . |
| 11 | Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place |
| 12 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | Well you answered it in the first , in the first answer that they got jobs they were employed er the , the rural labourers were able to , to get employment in urban areas er where wages were slightly above those wages that they could reasonably expect in agriculture and because they were actually productive making goods and services they helped the development process . |
| 14 | ‘ And , if you thought I might be , why did you hire me in the first place ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think our second half performance was our worst for a long time , but we murdered them in the first . ’ |
| 16 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |
| 17 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
| 18 | But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place |
| 19 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
| 20 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 21 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
| 22 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ? |
| 24 | I was the one who mucked up his texts worse than any of the others , that 's what made him notice me in the first place . ’ |
| 25 | They held them in the first half of the game and were only 12-10 down after 10 ends . |
| 26 | Apart from that , there 's a certain justification for the MC4 clasping the live album nettle — given that it was their constant , sometimes belligerent belief in gigging that helped them establish themselves in the first place . |
| 27 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 28 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 29 | That 's really how he persuaded me in the first place to pretend … ’ |