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6 After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the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 .
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