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 . |