Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] 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 | 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 ' . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Researchers now believe the phenolic flavonoids , by acting as anti-oxidants , prevent the damaging fat building up in the first place . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ? |
| 11 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 12 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 13 | To try and reduce the potential for stress to build up in the first place . |
| 14 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 15 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 16 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 17 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 18 | That was the idea of the union starting out in the first place . |
| 19 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 20 | It was also based on the even worse assumption that the actual level of income support in April 1990 was sufficient for people to live on in the first place . |
| 21 | Why does go down in the first place ? |
| 22 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 24 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 25 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 26 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
| 27 | There wo n't be a brain being wired up in the first place , unless there is a complete developing embryo . |
| 28 | Yes so why did you say shut up in the first place ? |
| 29 | And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’ |