Example sentences of "[adv] there [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.

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1 Community care also highlights one of the fundamental flaws of charters — there is little point being able to complain about a service if it simply is not there in the first place .
2 And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place .
3 ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place .
4 But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then .
5 But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place .
6 up there in the first place without anything .
7 As the benefit money came in we sent a lot of it out to Suzie 's parents — we thought that if we found something we wanted to buy out there and did choose to emigrate , having the money out there in the first place would make it all that much easier .
8 ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’
9 The only other possibility is that it was never there in the first place — that she left it at home by mistake . ’
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