Example sentences of "get [adv] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |
| 2 | How did these faulty presuppositions get there in the first place ? |
| 3 | ‘ Tell me how you got here in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | Up to this point in our considerations the informational process may seem to have been followed of which many youngsters complain : they are told that " Mummy 's egg " is livened by " Daddy 's seed " but not how Daddy 's seed got there in the first place ! |
| 5 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 6 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |