Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 31 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 32 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 33 | We sent the boat out to buy him in the first place . |
| 34 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | well I suppose their motto is , she had a C D ten on her driving licence , I suppose she should n't of had it in the first place so if she had n't of had it , he would n't of got it ! |
| 37 | The turnover may have to be greatly reduced in this situation until the young fish are large enough to withstand the water flow , so why employ it in the first place ? |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 40 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
| 41 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 42 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 43 | But that still does n't tell me why you 're wearing them in the first place , does it ? ’ she grinned . |
| 44 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 45 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 46 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 47 | 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 : |
| 48 | Thought you were so damn smart getting it in the first place , and drink has blurred you so much you 've blown it . |
| 49 | Whether this is the true one I would not like to say but in this version the ‘ trains wipe tapes ’ hypothesis was the inspired explanation of a recording engineer who , through an operational error , had failed to record anything in the first place ! |
| 50 | But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 |
| 53 | You lost them in the first place . |
| 54 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 55 | Why , one wonders , did they fire him in the first place ? |
| 56 | The most glaring sin is the failure of husbands adequately to interact with their wives ' ideas , and the ultimate wrong-headedness of not consulting her in the first place . |
| 57 | Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place . |
| 58 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 59 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 60 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |