Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 4 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For effectiveness , then , magazines and journals tend to reach the most relevant markets , provided they are selected carefully in the first place . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But what does amaze me , is the reason why this motion came forward in the first place . |
| 15 | Do n't know why you 're going there in the first place . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 20 | How did these faulty presuppositions get there in the first place ? |
| 21 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
| 22 | Where are the projects that might stop them from doing so in the first place ? |
| 23 | The room should be very warm and draught-free ; chilled muscles contract , causing a release of adrenalin — something you are trying to soothe away in the first place . |
| 24 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 25 | ‘ Tell me how you got here in the first place . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ If you believe that , why did you stay here in the first place ? ’ |
| 27 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 28 | She should never have gone there in the first place . |
| 29 | On the other hand , she did not feel that she could refuse him , because if she refused him , by what right and for what purpose had she gone there in the first place ? |
| 30 | And then I did something even more stupid than the having gone there in the first place . |