Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was never yours in the first place . |
| 2 | No , his , his in the right place I suppose in the event of any thing happening are n't you . |
| 3 | Their habits have probably always been similar , and if survival is to be taken as a measure of success , their conservative way of life has ensured them of a leading place in the evolutionary marathon . |
| 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 | For example , being born in a neighbourhood may entitle you to a higher place in the queue for housing provided by that local authority . |
| 22 | Either come aboard ship with us when we have the treasure , and we 'll take you to a safe place ; or stay here on the island . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm going to take you to a little place that 'll sell us a bottle of scotch in the back room , and nobody any the wiser . |
| 24 | Listening to tapes of bird calls will help you identify unseen birds too and help direct you to the best place to stand and look for them . |
| 25 | And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place ! |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ We are not taking you to an uncivilised place , Jenna , ’ he murmured . |
| 28 | Are we gon na be able to get them into the right place ? |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |