Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [num ord] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was never yours in the first place . |
| 2 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
| 3 | With the sum their husbands allowed them , wives organised the family budget , which in the first place involved solving the food/rent equation . |
| 4 | Or somebody in the next place or the next place , we reckon we know where it is |
| 5 | It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood . |
| 6 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 7 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 8 | Also , when you die you get to choose whereabouts on the screen to restart , avoiding the trap of landing you right in the middle of what killed you in the first place . |
| 9 | How do you in the first place ? |
| 10 | But there has to be something to trigger the interest in the first place and whatever that is and however mild a form that might be lust , lust might be a more extreme form of it , but there has to be something to interest you in the first place , before you can go on to love , to knowing more about the person and having this in love feeling develop into love . |
| 11 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 13 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 14 | ‘ I got the idea from you in the first place , from your attitude . |
| 15 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 16 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | How certain are you in the first place that it 's a scentmaker ? ’ |
| 18 | I should n't have said I 'd come up here with you in the first place . |
| 19 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 20 | DP , Stirling Assuming there are no complications you have not mentioned — for example , that the property is still in the name of someone else who left it to you in the first place — then the changes you requested should take weeks rather than months . |
| 21 | He did n't , he did n't wan na go out you , you in the first place and he just did n't bother to tell , tell anybody |
| 22 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 23 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 24 | The special difficulty is not how to choose between several alternative computational accounts , once we have got them , but how to arrive even at one in the first place . |
| 25 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 27 | My wife , Daphne , volunteered to stay and man — sorry , woman — the ramparts at home ; thus proving , not for the first time , she was far too bright to have married me in the first place . |
| 28 | P'raps 'e knew 'e was in the wrong by provokin' me in the first place . |
| 29 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 30 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |