Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] in the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 well why did she come and live down here in the first place ?
2 Half of them did n't , they were up illegally in the first place , working the under-side of the system , the jobs nobody wants .
3 " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . "
4 Well , up twice in the first day er , sorry , Bernie , Lancashire region moving motion three seventy .
5 President , conference , as I say , up twice in the first day it 's a cracking conference that starts with motion three seventy and works backwards to number one it 's better than Thunderbirds really .
6 And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place .
7 ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place .
8 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 .
9 But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place .
10 up there in the first place without anything .
11 The various government schemes designed to assist labour transfers ( Johnson and Salt , 1980 ) have traditionally made an extremely limited contribution to migration and were cut back further in the first half of the 1980s .
12 Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology .
13 was laid out late in the first century , but its continuation southwards was not constructed until the mid third century .
14 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 .
15 ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’
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