Example sentences of "to him [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | His illness would stand to him in the other place too . |
| 2 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
| 8 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
| 9 | ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly . |
| 10 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |