Example sentences of "[prep] them in the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 2 | Faced , however , with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them ( which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place ) , the Government poured money into any ‘ voluntary ’ agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour . |
| 3 | that wh who in the government would he dispose of and he sat and smiled gently and said well he would n't have appointed any of them in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ What we found initially was that individual mussel meats were small because there were so many of them in the one place . |
| 5 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 6 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |