Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was never yours in the first place . |
| 2 | With the sum their husbands allowed them , wives organised the family budget , which in the first place involved solving the food/rent equation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | How do you in the first place ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 11 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 12 | ‘ I got the idea from you in the first place , from your attitude . |
| 13 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 14 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 15 | How certain are you in the first place that it 's a scentmaker ? ’ |
| 16 | I should n't have said I 'd come up here with you in the first place . |
| 17 | Eternal damnation for ever getting tied up with you in the first place ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 , . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | P'raps 'e knew 'e was in the wrong by provokin' me in the first place . |
| 26 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 27 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | This books has been designed : by me in the first place with my subjects , writing and drawings ; then by the print designer . |
| 29 | I was the one who mucked up his texts worse than any of the others , that 's what made him notice me in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd been hurt — the man I thought loved me had not only jilted me and stolen my money , but admitted that he had n't wanted me in the first place . |