Example sentences of "[vb pp] there [prep] the [num ord] place " in BNC.
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1 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
2 | She should never have gone there in the first place . |
3 | On the other hand , she did not feel that she could refuse him , because if she refused him , by what right and for what purpose had she gone there in the first place ? |
4 | And then I did something even more stupid than the having gone there in the first place . |
5 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
6 | Among them , a black and white jackdaw hopped , a magic sign of great portent and possibly the reason why the camp had been pitched there in the first place . |
7 | ‘ Or what is she never went there in the first place ? ’ |