Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why then did you put over a hundred thousand pounds in that budget in the first place ? |
| 2 | ‘ If she 's dead , ’ said Sam , ‘ she 's not going to mind much about anything , and anyway , if she went to all the trouble of making that tape in the first place , she 's obviously not bothered about leaving it lying around . |
| 3 | " I 'm grateful to you for your help and for coming to High Brook in the first place . |
| 4 | Jimmy Airlie , chief Ford union negotiator , said : ‘ The princess should never have picked a foreign car in the first place . |
| 5 | Indeed , imposing performance-based emoluments of this sort flies in the face of one major reason for regulation or public ownership in the first place . |
| 6 | If we 're so smart we would n't be in this mess in the first place . |
| 7 | ‘ If she had done her job properly , I would never have been in this mess in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And I 'm sorry , too , ’ puts in Rainbow , ‘ for getting you into this mess in the first place . |
| 9 | Part of her , that stubborn , spirited side , the side that had got her into this mess in the first place , would n't let her give up , back out and admit that Luke Denner and his sexuality were more than she could handle . |
| 10 | Yet he is required to hand over his children 's future to the ‘ non-ideological ’ market forces he thinks are largely responsible for getting us all into this mess in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 12 | The biggest question mark over Major out of the row is how the Government got into this mess in the first place . |
| 13 | This was because , Murphy told him , he had never known a proper lady in the first place . |
| 14 | The decision to investigate this relationship in the first place was bound up with theories of the social function of closeknit networks ( see 5.7.1 ) . |
| 15 | Noone knew what had happened cos noone expected a free kick in the first place let alone expected them to take it like that . |
| 16 | But how did ‘ race ’ come to occupy a place in post-war British education in the first place and what were its terms of entry ? |
| 17 | ‘ We were given the wrong advice in the first place , ’ says Jeremy Myles of TEM . |
| 18 | ‘ The people who seem to be giving us all the orders now are the very people who , um , got us into this trouble in the first place ! ’ |
| 19 | Regret because maybe her husband will find out and want to know why she was going with another man in the first place . |
| 20 | My final choice from last week 's ‘ Independent ’ was the example that provoked me into attempting this subject in the first place . |
| 21 | There are also important questions to be asked about the reasons for admission to residential care in the first place , for that in itself is an aspect of dependency . |
| 22 | It 's terribly uncomfortable to be trapped in this situation in the first place . |
| 23 | The Korean War , which had caused the US to propose German rearmament in the first place , had settled into stalemate and the danger of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe had receded : German rearmament no longer seemed necessary . |
| 24 | She 'd known he 'd think that and that was one of the reasons why she had n't wanted to get into this conversation in the first place . |
| 25 | Having taken the trouble to travel all this way in the first place , he 'd doubtless find some means of coercing her to stay . |
| 26 | Having instigated this trip in the first place , Maggie became most anxious and cornered Mitch upstairs after breakfast . |
| 27 | If Chancellor Norman Lamont wants to ease their burden he should begin by penalising those uncaring banks which have caused a lot of this misery in the first place . |
| 28 | Say that 's population control investment in agricultural infrastructure and technology education and what 's causing this problem in the first place ? |
| 29 | Again it should be emphasised that many sufferers never receive counselling ( except from a sponsor ) or go into residential treatment in the first place and that residential treatment centres have no place other than to help sufferers remove blocks to their understanding of the principles of recovery of the . |
| 30 | There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required . |