Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 2 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 3 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 5 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 7 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 8 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 9 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 10 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 11 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 12 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 13 | Arm and back heights too , can be varied since they have to be built separately in the first place , and there is almost always a large range of covers available for the choosing within the price range . |
| 14 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 15 | For effectiveness , then , magazines and journals tend to reach the most relevant markets , provided they are selected carefully in the first place . |
| 16 | If a house is not built soundly in the first place , and if it is not kept in good repair , it will fail when put to the test . |
| 17 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 18 | What about for traders I mean , erm obviously you ca n't really c er why you ca n't comment on the fact that er how your father o o can you comment on how your father actually moved here in the first place . |
| 19 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
| 20 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 21 | But what does amaze me , is the reason why this motion came forward in the first place . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 23 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |
| 24 | Do n't know why you 're going there in the first place . |
| 25 | With the wisdom of hindsight it is easy to say that they should not have tried to raid there in the first place , but success had bred a certain arrogance . |
| 26 | Researchers now believe the phenolic flavonoids , by acting as anti-oxidants , prevent the damaging fat building up in the first place . |
| 27 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 28 | Critics believe there 'd be no need to build such expensive treatment plants to extract nitrates if farmers were given incentives to use less in the first place . |
| 29 | Because it is hard to expel asylum-seekers once they have arrived , potential host countries make it difficult for refugees to leave home in the first place . |
| 30 | ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ? |