Example sentences of "[adv] there [prep] the first [noun sg] " 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 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 3 | And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place . |
| 7 | up there in the first place without anything . |
| 8 | ‘ But that is not to say I am going to rush back there at the first opportunity . ’ |
| 9 | There were some boys out there for the first time and they were absolutely terrified . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | The only other possibility is that it was never there in the first place — that she left it at home by mistake . ’ |