Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why then did you put over a hundred thousand pounds in that budget in the first place ? |
| 2 | ‘ If she 's dead , ’ said Sam , ‘ she 's not going to mind much about anything , and anyway , if she went to all the trouble of making that tape in the first place , she 's obviously not bothered about leaving it lying around . |
| 3 | If we 're so smart we would n't be in this mess in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ If she had done her job properly , I would never have been in this mess in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And I 'm sorry , too , ’ puts in Rainbow , ‘ for getting you into this mess in the first place . |
| 6 | Part of her , that stubborn , spirited side , the side that had got her into this mess in the first place , would n't let her give up , back out and admit that Luke Denner and his sexuality were more than she could handle . |
| 7 | Yet he is required to hand over his children 's future to the ‘ non-ideological ’ market forces he thinks are largely responsible for getting us all into this mess in the first place . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 9 | The biggest question mark over Major out of the row is how the Government got into this mess in the first place . |
| 10 | The decision to investigate this relationship in the first place was bound up with theories of the social function of closeknit networks ( see 5.7.1 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ The people who seem to be giving us all the orders now are the very people who , um , got us into this trouble in the first place ! ’ |
| 12 | Regret because maybe her husband will find out and want to know why she was going with another man in the first place . |
| 13 | My final choice from last week 's ‘ Independent ’ was the example that provoked me into attempting this subject in the first place . |
| 14 | It 's terribly uncomfortable to be trapped in this situation in the first place . |
| 15 | She 'd known he 'd think that and that was one of the reasons why she had n't wanted to get into this conversation in the first place . |
| 16 | Having taken the trouble to travel all this way in the first place , he 'd doubtless find some means of coercing her to stay . |
| 17 | Having instigated this trip in the first place , Maggie became most anxious and cornered Mitch upstairs after breakfast . |
| 18 | If Chancellor Norman Lamont wants to ease their burden he should begin by penalising those uncaring banks which have caused a lot of this misery in the first place . |
| 19 | Say that 's population control investment in agricultural infrastructure and technology education and what 's causing this problem in the first place ? |
| 20 | ‘ Well , George , if we are going to start arguing that way , who provided the money for the deposit on this house in the first place ? ’ |
| 21 | If the hon. Gentleman is seeking to make a charge against me , he must make that charge equally against the chief veterinary officer for raising that issue in the first place . |
| 22 | This dismal monumentalism is the apotheosis of impersonality , a confirmation rather than a denial of the mindset which led to such slaughter in the first place , though the architect intended no irony . |
| 23 | On the other hand , some may never have placed such emphasis on independence in their lives , or never felt that they had very much independence in the first place . |
| 24 | The system of financial ownership does not generate as much risk in the first place , while the state handles much of what does occur . |
| 25 | As to the argument advanced by Mr. Barda on an analogy between ordinary and judicial parents , my understanding of the prerogative function of wardship , also applicable to the residual prerogative , is that it is a frequent justification for the exercise of such jurisdiction in the first place , that parents ' rights are insufficient and that the court 's greater powers are necessary for an objective decision as to the best interests of the child concerned . |
| 26 | Who said we trusted each other in the first place ? |
| 27 | The crucial question is whether it manages to liberate at least as much energy from fusions as was expended in running a particle accelerator to produce that muon in the first place . |
| 28 | To acknowledge hunger ( which is not a disease but a social illness ) would be tantamount to political suicide among leaders whose power has come traditionally from the same plantation economy that produced that hunger in the first place . |
| 29 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 30 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |