Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the first place [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 2 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 3 | This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's been a lot of talk about the £14 million funding for community care this year but the fact is £4 million of that went in setting the thing up in the first place and we 've only got £10 million left for the rest of the year , ’ said Coun Ron Kennedy . |
| 5 | She wished she had not put the lamp on in the first place because she was sure he would be able to fathom out how she felt . |
| 6 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |