Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
| 2 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 3 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 4 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 6 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |
| 7 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 8 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 9 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 10 | Certainly , it was these qualities that drew her to him in the first place , but now … these were not the true reasons why she stayed with him . |
| 11 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
| 13 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 14 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 15 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
| 16 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |
| 17 | The lines of experience were marked on her face and although she still had all the exuberant charm which had drawn him to her in the first place , he thought she looked older than he knew her to be . |
| 18 | He kept asking her to get to the point as he was in a meeting , while she was waiting for him to get to the point , since , as far as she was aware , he 'd made the call to her in the first place . |
| 19 | ‘ How did you get on to it in the first place ? ’ |