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

No	Sentence
1	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 .
2	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 .
3	I do n't quite know why they put that edge on in the first place .
4	‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’
5	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 .
6	‘ 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 .
7	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 .
8	‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’
9	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 .
10	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 .
11	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 .