Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 2 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 7 | 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 ' . |
| 8 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For effectiveness , then , magazines and journals tend to reach the most relevant markets , provided they are selected carefully in the first place . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But what does amaze me , is the reason why this motion came forward in the first place . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Do n't know why you 're going there in the first place . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Researchers now believe the phenolic flavonoids , by acting as anti-oxidants , prevent the damaging fat building up in the first place . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ? |
| 29 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 30 | How did these faulty presuppositions get there in the first place ? |