Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Very silly of him in the first place ! |
| 3 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 4 | ‘ Why the fuck did you get involved with him in the first place ? ’ |
| 5 | Can you give me some idea of erm h how you started up with him in the first place ? |
| 6 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 7 | ‘ I may have got the idea from him in the first place , but that 's all . |
| 8 | Georgi Kirov was waiting for him at the appointed place and time . |
| 9 | His illness would stand to him in the other place too . |
| 10 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 11 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 12 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
| 13 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 15 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 16 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 17 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
| 18 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |
| 19 | Elinor dreamily remembered what it was like to feel that your lover possessed all the wonderful qualities you wanted , before you realized that he did n't possess them , and that perhaps you had forced those qualities on him in the first place . |
| 20 | That was why Aunt Alicia took pity on him in the first place , Jenny had said , because he had nowhere to put his horses . |