Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] in the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | One roadie said I should have thought about it before I accepted in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | The two who came in the first place . |
| 3 | Indeed , is this not what you advised in the first place ? |
| 4 | Once you begin lying , it is hard not to go on because it is impossible to explain why you lied in the first place . |
| 5 | Comfort eating and disliking yourself are two classic symptoms of depression , so try to work out why you started in the first place . |
| 6 | What a pity she did not discover that all she needed in the first place to remove the ‘ writer 's cramp ’ was to rest her right elbow on the table when writing instead of letting it hang over the edge without support ! |
| 7 | More than likely , you came out of the cinema wondering why you went in the first place . |
| 8 | ‘ Although you should n't need to hear it , and you should never have believed what you did in the first place … |
| 9 | I also wish to thank the hon. Member for Glasgow , Shettleston ( Mr. Marshall ) who suggested in the first place that the Bill should apply to Scotland as well as to England and Wales . |
| 10 | If that is what we specified we wanted in the first place . |
| 11 | By removing the incentive to become or to stay competitive , countries risk losing in the longer term the benefits they sought in the first place . |
| 12 | When a commentary on Michael Rutter 's Fifteen Thousand Hours was formulated by Tizard and others ( 1980 ) it acknowledged in the first place that in the report an impressive base of data supported " an architecture in which many common sense perceptions about schools were co-ordinated " ( Tizard et al. |
| 13 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't think how he escaped in the first place , ’ complained the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 16 | If during the period of habituation the touch of the glass rod is coupled with some other stimulus — say a bright light — the original response at once returns in full , so it can not be merely because of exhaustion that it disappeared in the first place . |
| 17 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 18 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |