Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
2 | I know , you would n't have been there in the first place . |
3 | My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money . |
4 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
5 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
6 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
7 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |