Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 2 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 3 | On finishing it , had she realized for the first time that he meant to kill her ? |
| 4 | Had they succeeded for the first time in outstripping the rumours of their coming ? |
| 5 | Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today . |
| 6 | Had they died for the first crime those thirty- ? ? ? ? people would still be alive today . |
| 7 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |