Example sentences of "of [pron] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced , however , with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them ( which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place ) , the Government poured money into any ‘ voluntary ’ agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour . |
| 2 | that wh who in the government would he dispose of and he sat and smiled gently and said well he would n't have appointed any of them in the first place . |
| 3 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
| 4 | Very silly of him in the first place ! |
| 5 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 6 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 7 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 8 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |