Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , after all , is why we have the Maastricht treaty in the first place . |
| 2 | Why did the United States not leave it to Scotland Yard in the first place ? |
| 3 | Some of the Champagne houses which make a point of declaring they never use vins de taille in their own products have purchased ready-made Champagnes from the very houses to which they sold their vins de taille in the first place . |
| 4 | I strongly suspect that it was the prospect of extended filming next door to Portofino that lured Miranda Richardson , Joan Plowright , the producer Ann Scott and her director Mike Newell in the first place . |
| 5 | These , after all , were the factors which brought The Brunner Mond Partners to the Weaver Valley in the first place . |
| 6 | Once this had been achieved , and we had given each other that little nod of recognition with which one acknowledges an intellectual equal , I moved on to the question that really interested me , which was how Alison came to know Thomas Carter in the first place . |