Example sentences of "[verb] you [prep] [art] [num ord] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 2 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 5 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 6 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 7 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 8 | How do you in the first place ? |