Example sentences of "[prep] you [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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1 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
2 | I should n't have said I 'd come up here with you in the first place . |
3 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
4 | ‘ I got the idea from you in the first place , from your attitude . |
5 | 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 ’ . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |