Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 2 | Faced , however , with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them ( which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place ) , the Government poured money into any ‘ voluntary ’ agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour . |
| 3 | that wh who in the government would he dispose of and he sat and smiled gently and said well he would n't have appointed any of them in the first place . |
| 4 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
| 5 | Very silly of him in the first place ! |
| 6 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 7 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 8 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 9 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 10 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 11 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 12 | I should n't have said I 'd come up here with you in the first place . |
| 13 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 14 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why the fuck did you get involved with him in the first place ? ’ |
| 16 | Can you give me some idea of erm h how you started up with him in the first place ? |
| 17 | Such women ( I include myself ) are probably a majority in the movement ( it was the sort of feeling that brought us into it in the first place , and anyway we have more time than mothers ) but not among women as a whole , most of whom appear to want to spend at least part of their lives having and raising children . |
| 18 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place . |
| 19 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 20 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 21 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 22 | ‘ I got the idea from you in the first place , from your attitude . |
| 23 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 24 | ‘ I may have got the idea from him in the first place , but that 's all . |
| 25 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 26 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 27 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 28 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 30 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |