Example sentences of "[verb] you [prep] the first 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 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 6 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 7 | How do you in the first place ? |