Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] the [num ord] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mebbe that 's what they were after in the first place . |
| 2 | He liked taking them apart and putting them together again in the wrong order to make new toys and would do this all day until he had forgotten what they looked like in the first place . |
| 3 | I had a most interesting meeting in Scotland with all of our lay delegates there , erm on Friday and some of you within British Gas will know that in Scotland they 've even more problems with the M A P L than any of the other regions because they were operating a different system to start with in the first place . |
| 4 | but people chuck all this stuff at you and you , Ooh what 's going on ? now if you 're not very very sure of what you 're working with in the first place |
| 5 | Because had there been no breach , the contract would never have been entered into in the first place and the er plaintiffs will rely upon that erm recent court appeal decision between and er against where the court of appeal indicated that if you are dealing with a case where the plaintiff was saying had there been no breach of contract , this is a transaction we would never have entered in to then the plaintiffs are entitled to recover compensation on that basis . |
| 6 | I do n't want my house broken into in the first place . |
| 7 | That 's what he bought them for in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | Rough Collie Rescue ( London and South East ) started an appeal , with £200 of their own money , named the ‘ Robbie Fund ’ to help Grace McNeil afford the court costs she should never have been liable for in the first place . |
| 9 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 10 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 11 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 12 | How much did we buy Kerslake for in the first place ? |
| 13 | Where are we after the Kids ' County you know what you rang up for in the first place ? |
| 14 | No sociological research is likely to produce absolutely clear cut answers ; if it were to come out with all the results 100 per cent in support of some hypothesis it would rather suggest that the hypothesis was hardly worth bothering about in the first place . |
| 15 | ‘ Friedel ’ comes careering through the door with an axe in its hand , before forgetting what it was so angry about in the first place , while ‘ Liebeslied ’ is the sort of directionless tosh that gives experimentalism a bad name . |
| 16 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 17 | ‘ Friedel ’ comes careering through the door with an axe in its hand , before forgetting what it was so angry about in the first place , while ‘ Liebeslied ’ is the sort of directionless tosh that gives experimentalism a bad name . |
| 18 | ‘ Now , does anybody know where all that cotton comes from in the first place ? ’ |
| 19 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 20 | If crime is learned from others ( as differential association proposes ) where did it come from in the first place ? |
| 21 | And apparently the firm that she ordered the thing from in the first place had been er , re-set up . |
| 22 | I wonder whether it was leaking in , when they put it in in the first place ? |
| 23 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 24 | But how do you know who to talk to in the first place ? |
| 25 | And erm I ca I came to in the first place because it was the best teaching hospital in the Midlands at that time . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't steal anything from you , and what you lost , you had no right to in the first place . ’ |
| 27 | you 're not too sure what he wants , he 's agreed to see you next week , he does n't know why he 's seeing you but you go back and you present , so try and overcome rejection but the thing was he wants to in the first place . |
| 28 | Before we talk about the er er getting to the purpose of our meeting , erm , how long were you , how did you come to in the first place ? |
| 29 | erm is not talking to in the first place |