Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis Dersingham was clearly annoyed to find himself having answered his sister in the first place . |
| 2 | How had Hubert let Elfael and Brycheiniog slip through his fingers in the first place ? |
| 3 | I could never understand why Crusoe left his paradise in the first place ; wild horses would not have dragged me from Juan Fernandez . |
| 4 | With exquisite logic , Sonic Boom is on the panel , a man who could n't stop talking , I 'm sure , if he could be bothered to open his mouth in the first place . |
| 5 | I should n't have been in his study in the first place . |
| 6 | As Owen had not appointed Yussuf to his service in the first place but Yussuf had appointed himself , this seemed beside the point . |
| 7 | After this year , however , Gary became really confused for a couple of months and began to doubt his call in the first place . |
| 8 | It was his idea in the first place to try celibacy when the Hare Krishna lot came round ten years ago with their gongs . |
| 9 | The helium-3 is what Palmer was trying to produce as it was the presence of this gas in the atmosphere that had stimulated his idea in the first place , but detecting it would not be easy . |
| 10 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |