Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.

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1 Despite the horrors he 'd seen , and the fierceness of his revulsion , some small part of him retained the fascination that had drawn him , Godolphin and their fellow experimenters together in the first place .
2 Let's begin by looking at how to connect the Macintosh and the PC together in the first place .
3 The CBI rejects warnings that companies will hide behind the new anti-hacking laws , rather than make efforts to keep intruders out in the first place .
4 If there has been no solid social formation there in the first place , it follows that the child can very easily be completely out of control at an early age and almost impossible to reclaim .
5 But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident .
6 Crete is a real must if you enjoy a combination of relaxation and exploration in a climate which attracted the Minoans here in the first place .
7 She wished she had not put the lamp on in the first place because she was sure he would be able to fathom out how she felt .
8 It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’
9 And bizarrely enough , the reason he began to take bottleneck seriously in the first place was due to a complete misunderstanding …
10 But now the water 's evaporating , killing the tiny fish that brought the birds here in the first place , and as the food source disappears , many birds are dying .
11 Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot .
12 I do n't quite know why they put that edge on in the first place .
13 ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’
14 If you 've got an alarm which is faulty and repeatedly goes off then , nine times out of ten , you ought to switch the thing off in the first place .
15 I should have hit him a lot harder in the first place .
16 ‘ There 's been a lot of talk about the £14 million funding for community care this year but the fact is £4 million of that went in setting the thing up in the first place and we 've only got £10 million left for the rest of the year , ’ said Coun Ron Kennedy .
17 For example , a lecturer may have irregular commitments outside the Course , or the institution , which are not easy to record in a computer ( unless complicated data structures are used ) and are even harder to gather accurate information about in the first place .
18 The housewife has to get the washing there in the first place , she has to unload it , sort it , sit and watch it wash and dry ( or dash out to shop in the interim ) and then pack it all up again .
19 ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’
20 Sorry , Charles , Chair , can we er , in noting the report , also is there some way in which we can , the Committee can convey its appreciation to the people who take on this , must be onerous responsibility er , er , and also can we congratulate the people who thought the scheme up in the first place .
21 This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly .
22 That could help prevent the children falling into the same cycle of problems which put their fathers here in the first place
23 And what on earth were you doing in that closet together in the first place ? ’
24 To think about this , we now have to relax one of the restrictions that I built into the computer game : we shall end by seeing why I built that restriction in in the first place .
25 A glance at the map of Ireland immediately raises the question ‘ Why was the plant there in the first place ? ’
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