Example sentences of "[verb] there [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Do n't know why you 're going there in the first place . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | How did these faulty presuppositions get there in the first place ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She should never have gone there in the first place . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | And then I did something even more stupid than the having gone there in the first place . |
| 9 | Up to this point in our considerations the informational process may seem to have been followed of which many youngsters complain : they are told that " Mummy 's egg " is livened by " Daddy 's seed " but not how Daddy 's seed got there in the first place ! |
| 10 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | The firm which supplied the scaffold blames the boy 's parents for letting him play there in the first place . |
| 12 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 13 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 14 | Among them , a black and white jackdaw hopped , a magic sign of great portent and possibly the reason why the camp had been pitched there in the first place . |
| 15 | ‘ Or what is she never went there in the first place ? ’ |