Example sentences of "[verb] it in the first place " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place |
| 32 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 33 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 34 | I should n't have took it in the first place . |
| 35 | Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place . |
| 36 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
| 37 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |
| 38 | Because , as I say , we 've got recycling credits on our side , we 've got the fact that we 've got this outlet in Exmouth which will take the paper , and that 's why we 're looking at producing this workshop area , so that a lot of this stuff that goes to landfill , I 'm talking about , fridges , tables , whichever else that can be repaired and reused er , I know this is only on a very small scale , but one of the things that I think is very important with is that we 're not purely a recycling centre , we also want to set an education project , to raise people 's awareness of what yo yet waste production is n't about recycling , it 's about not producing it in the first place , |
| 39 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 40 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
| 41 | ‘ I 'm very lucky because I 'm sure there are loads of managers who get fed up with their artists music or maybe never even liked it in the first place ! |
| 42 | I went to the , I went to the gold shop when they were shut actually , w to get it in the first place |
| 43 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
| 44 | The precautionary principle suggests that , as the future damage done by pollution is often more costly than the extra expense of avoiding it in the first place and in any case it is often unacceptable , even if a money cost ca n't be put on it , then prevention is better than cure . |
| 45 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 46 | Fortunately , the result of this test proved to be negative but , given the temperance of her lifestyle , her decision to take it in the first place would , at the very least , seem as bizarre as Mr Oliver Reed , the thirst , embarking upon an assertiveness training course . |
| 47 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |
| 48 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |
| 49 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 50 | If a newspaper publishes a defamatory statement , it can not shift all the blame to the person who uttered it in the first place . |
| 51 | It was also one of the most economical , which was why Kolchinsky would have purchased it in the first place . |
| 52 | he 's saying he did n't say it in the first place . |