Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] in the [num ord] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
| 2 | These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place . |
| 3 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 4 | And one particularly thorough research study on boys growing up in London concluded that if a boy offends , the best way to prevent him from offending repeatedly is not to catch him in the first place ( West , 1992 : 104–11 ) ! |
| 5 | ‘ Why did you agree to meet her in the first place ? ’ |
| 6 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 7 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 8 | ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
| 9 | She would have to have a word with her father about this man and find out what on earth had inspired him to hire him in the first place . |
| 10 | We sent the boat out to buy him in the first place . |
| 11 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 12 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
| 13 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 14 | But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place . |
| 15 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 16 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |
| 17 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |
| 18 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 19 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |
| 20 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 21 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |
| 22 | It 's been over a year since Russell kept wicket for his country , and even the England selectors now agree it was a mistake to drop him in the first place . |
| 23 | I went to the , I went to the gold shop when they were shut actually , w to get it in the first place |
| 24 | Fortunately , the result of this test proved to be negative but , given the temperance of her lifestyle , her decision to take it in the first place would , at the very least , seem as bizarre as Mr Oliver Reed , the thirst , embarking upon an assertiveness training course . |
| 25 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |