Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pers pn] in the first " in BNC.

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1 I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’
2 On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance .
3 He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies .
4 Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ .
5 The considerable post-Boer War concern about children was reflected in the amount of legislative attention paid to them in the first years of the Liberal government .
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