Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roughness and sheer wild irrationality of Lewis 's domestic persona were matched by the genuinely warm-hearted impulse which had led him to befriend Havard in the first place . |
| 2 | There was one , there was one last comment that I missed out there that it was the erm the permission to proceed with the product recommendations , you were wanting to proceed with recommendations but you had n't got the commitment off Steven in the first place so you were suggestion recommendations and what ! |
| 3 | Was n't that partly the reason why she had agreed to see André in the first place ? |
| 4 | That 's why Jeff brought you to Sardinia in the first place ! ’ |
| 5 | In fact , Flaherty thought it was a better idea than invoking the Draoicht Suan until it was explained to him that unless Pumlumon did invoke it , they would all of them be roasting on spits in the Gruagach 's sculleries before the night was out , to which he said that giants had always been partial to roast Gnome and he had always thought it was a mistake to come to Tara in the first place . |
| 6 | Doctors have never found it easy to go along with reform and were dragged , kicking and screaming , into the Bevan-style NHS in the first place . |
| 7 | She remembered the fights she had had to keep Eve in the first place , when so many other solutions were being offered . |
| 8 | However they put aside their competitiveness ( the Caledonian and Balmoral in Edinburgh , for example , are fighting for exactly the same guests ) because they know that it is only by working together , as one body , that they will attract visitors to Scotland in the first place . |
| 9 | Erm , now can you tell me about how you how you decided to actually , you know why you decided to actually go to Spain in the first place ? |
| 10 | The general , whose appointment as prime minister a year ago is disputed by a rival Muslim government in west Beirut , did not want Christian deputies to go to Taif in the first place . |
| 11 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're a liar and a hypocrite , that you 're also Garry 's discarded lover does n't absolve you from the guilt of taking him from Berenice in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | Such a system , based on social class and the old school tie , had never become quite so entrenched across the Atlantic in the first place , and had largely broken down by the end of the 1950s . |
| 14 | The fact that Virgin Atlantic had won the licence to fly the Atlantic in the first place was , he said , a brave move on the part of the Civil Aviation Authority , given the Laker experience , but also a measure of government policy . |
| 15 | After all , that is why many whites bought into Africa in the first place . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps for the same reason I foolishly asked you to stay with Anna in the first place , ’ he snarled . |
| 17 | After all , she had signed Sting in the first place ( she had even given him a list of music-business lawyers to consult at the time , but he had used the Newcastle lawyer because he was cheaper ) . |
| 18 | He had ever favoured Em — there were no two ways about it — and Em had been quite wrong to post herself to Norfolk in the first place . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's the reason we went to LA in the first place , to be perfectly honest . |
| 20 | It 's their first since splitting with Phonogram Records and taking up with Compulsion ( a new label started by the A&R man who had signed them to Phonogram in the first place ) , and shows the band in muscular form . |
| 21 | How did you get into Girlschool in the first place ? |
| 22 | And thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free representative of this nation taking into their most serious consideration the best meanes for atteyneing the ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Ancestors in like Case have usually done ) for the vindicating and asserting their antient rights and Liberties , Declare . |
| 23 | ‘ And do n't forget , you were the one who contacted Mike in the first place . |
| 24 | This poses the interesting question of how they got to Machynlleth in the first place . |
| 25 | That I am living in Britain in the first place has everything to do with the fact that I came here to start the magazine you are reading , a magazine for men . |
| 26 | After all , Changez was needed in the shop even more urgently now that Anwar had so enfeebled himself on the Gandhi-diet in order to get Changez to Britain in the first place . |
| 27 | And what monumental arrogance — to think that an evening in his company would be enough to wean her away from Rob — that was if she had been interested in Rob in the first place ! |
| 28 | Otherwise , the lawyers have to sort out things like what rights are retained by shareholders , access to new revisions , compensation plans , employment contracts , shared AT&T/USL patents , pension plans and whether USL employees still have a right to go back to work at AT&T , an enticement used to get them to go to USL in the first place . |
| 29 | Vittorio Cassoni , erstwhile head of AT&T 's computer shop , and as such , the single individual most credited with giving the Open Software Foundation a reason to exist and dividing the Unix community into two opposing camps , has left Olivetti , who lent him to AT&T in the first place , to join Xerox Corp as executive vice president . |
| 30 | Not only that , but his great-great-uncle had been the architect who designed the Maryinsky in the first place . |