Example sentences of "it [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 2 | Perhaps he just picked it up in the right place . |
| 3 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 4 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 5 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 6 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 7 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 8 | Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant . |
| 9 | Put the flour back in the tube , clean the tube again and put it back in the warm place . |
| 10 | She recovered it and was about to slip it back into the book , when she realized that if she put it back in the wrong place , Mark might think she had been snooping . |
| 11 | but I 've only , in fact , used ten because someone took the microphone in and put it back in the wrong place . |