Example sentences of "were [verb] in the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 2 | To stay in existence , each of these communities must constantly remind us and themselves , of the violence through which they were subjugated in the first place . |
| 3 | Popular culture , thus , and high modernism were born in the same places at about the same time . |
| 4 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 5 | Surprisingly few big names have gone under , which may prove what many long suspected : that their products were over-priced in the first place . |