Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ And , if you thought I might be , why did you hire me in the first place ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Can you imagine me as the First Lady ? ’ she asked a friend in 1962 . |
| 4 | Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ? |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |