Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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1 | Patrick explained it should be stiff enough in the first place in order to stay up , achieved with the help of a product like the one he 'd just used . |
2 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
3 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
4 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
5 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
6 | Where are the projects that might stop them from doing so in the first place ? |
7 | Well , why did n't you say so in the first place ? ’ |
8 | ‘ I wonder if these councillors realise that anglers are among the people who vote them in in the first place , and who they are supposed to serve ? , ’ he asked . |
9 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
10 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’ |
11 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
12 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
13 | To think about this , we now have to relax one of the restrictions that I built into the computer game : we shall end by seeing why I built that restriction in in the first place . |
14 | And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’ |
15 | Critics believe there 'd be no need to build such expensive treatment plants to extract nitrates if farmers were given incentives to use less in the first place . |
16 | With more complex circuits , having to remove the transfers after taking all that time to lay them down in the first place , is wasteful . |
17 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
18 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
19 | Why does go down in the first place ? |
20 | Despite the horrors he 'd seen , and the fierceness of his revulsion , some small part of him retained the fascination that had drawn him , Godolphin and their fellow experimenters together in the first place . |
21 | They drifted apart as casually and amicably as they had drifted together in the first place , with no ill-will on either side . |
22 | Let's begin by looking at how to connect the Macintosh and the PC together in the first place . |
23 | And what on earth were you doing in that closet together in the first place ? ’ |
24 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
25 | Mm , but what I ca n't weigh up is there 's nothing wrong together in the first place |
26 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
27 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
28 | Arm and back heights too , can be varied since they have to be built separately in the first place , and there is almost always a large range of covers available for the choosing within the price range . |
29 | The room should be very warm and draught-free ; chilled muscles contract , causing a release of adrenalin — something you are trying to soothe away in the first place . |
30 | Uncles and aunts were likely to be out of touch with what was happening to their family on the continent , and sometimes there were tensions and disagreements which had caused them to move away in the first place . |