Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
| 2 | Perhaps you only forgot things you did n't want to be there in the first place . |
| 3 | Presumably the Soviets that argued that these protesters should n't be there in the first place and they have the right to apprehend them if , if they want to ? |
| 4 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
| 5 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
| 6 | I know , you would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 7 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 8 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
| 10 | The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 12 | The young MFI salesman who is only concerned in making sure the commission on your purchase accrues to him , not his colleague , has forgotten why he is there in the first place . |
| 13 | The first step is to check what is there in the first place . |
| 14 | Then it turned out to be rather unusually abundant and erm we now have the problem of trying to understand why it 's there in the first place . |
| 15 | I 've got an idea they 're a Cornish family and that 's why the old lady was here in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | Any organic material must inevitably reflect its origin , and can not contain what it was n't in the first place . |
| 17 | So , establishment for staphylococcusorius is often not an important feature because in the majority of infections we 're talking about an endogenous infection , the organism was there in the first place . |
| 18 | Why do you think the body was there in the first place ? |
| 19 | Erm you know , and these achievements , he 's not saying that you know re rev revolution 's the way forward , he 's actually saying look what 's happened before under the system that existed er previously , er well it actually existed , you know , at the time he was talking about , there does seem to be an effort by the peasants erm you know to , to improve their lot and therefore wha while he cites revolution in a way you , you can argue it is a bit strange because they seem to be , according to him , have improved their lot under the system that was there in the first place , erm |