Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sure my music is techno-based , ’ says the breathy jazz-house diva from Glasgow , ‘ but the house and rave scenes owed much to jazz in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 3 | Who introduced him to gambling in the first place ? |
| 4 | It does not deal directly with possession of weapons , nor with the legitimacy of resort to war in the first place . |
| 5 | He also sees that the Western-led coalition can not ensure peace or a new order because it ‘ is not willing to address ’ the very factors such as dictatorship and maldistribution of wealth and power which led to war in the first place . |
| 6 | As a result , life in such temporary accommodation can be extremely stressful and can serve to add markedly to the stresses which gave rise to homelessness in the first place . |
| 7 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 8 | It is from some of these 400 that the letters come protesting innocence — and if they often ramble and are poorly expressed , that is indicative of a lack of education which made them vulnerable to manipulation in the first place . |
| 9 | She should never have let him slip away silently to Pool in the first place , but clung fast to him there among the trees and called out the men to overpower him . |