Example sentences of "in the [adj] place [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place they were presented with a riveting demonstration of what a genuinely free press is capable of . |
| 2 | In the first place I am happy to say I have a most comfortable ship the ‘ Parsee ’ ’ although a small one 350 tons Barque with a commodious poop , no steerage passengers and not more than ten or twelve cabin p[assengers] . |
| 3 | Had Darwin known about this you see Darwin could have turned on his critics and said , look , in the first place you 're quite wrong about genetics , there is no or at least there does n't have to be because mutations occur as errors or changes in the base sequences in , in the genetic code . |
| 4 | And then in the first place you 're getting enough money you can you can bash it away and that 'll pay for your furniture . |
| 5 | In the first place she is anxious because she has been taken from her companions and familiar environment , and placed in a foreign country . |
| 6 | In the first place she was n't at all sure what she was going to see . |
| 7 | Maggie had the greatest desire to answer in Spanish and confound him , but in the first place she was n't exactly up to it , and secondly she was keeping it under her hat . |
| 8 | In the second place she was naked not armed , she was lying not riding , and she was the heroine not the hero . |
| 9 | In the second place he was behaving as if this was a holiday — a welcome break from his busy life — and if she wanted to go back it would mean he would go back too . |
| 10 | In the next place they are found side by side with great intellectual brilliance , and … clothed in glamour which hides the hollowness within . |