Example sentences of "up [adv] [prep] the first place " in BNC.

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1 Half of them did n't , they were up illegally in the first place , working the under-side of the system , the jobs nobody wants .
2 " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . "
3 And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place .
4 ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place .
5 But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then .
6 But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place .
7 up there in the first place without anything .
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