Example sentences of "they [adv] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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1 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
2 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
3 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
4 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
5 | We never got them out in the first place . |
6 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
7 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
8 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |