Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 2 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 4 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 6 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |
| 7 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 8 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 9 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 10 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 11 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 12 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 13 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 14 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 15 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 16 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
| 17 | There wo n't be a brain being wired up in the first place , unless there is a complete developing embryo . |