Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 2 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 3 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 4 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 5 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 6 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 7 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 8 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 9 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |