Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [num ord] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , is this not what you advised in the first place ? |
| 2 | The two who came in the first place . |
| 3 | And therefore , you begin to question whether it ever really happened in the first place , do n't you . |
| 4 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |
| 5 | ( The theatre , always open-air , consisted in the first place of a circular dancing-floor ( orchestra ) , where the chorus danced and sang , and the skene , behind the orchestra , was later added for the actors . |
| 6 | When a commentary on Michael Rutter 's Fifteen Thousand Hours was formulated by Tizard and others ( 1980 ) it acknowledged in the first place that in the report an impressive base of data supported " an architecture in which many common sense perceptions about schools were co-ordinated " ( Tizard et al. |
| 7 | All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place . |
| 8 | ‘ Ca n't think how he escaped in the first place , ’ complained the Home Secretary . |
| 9 | Once you begin lying , it is hard not to go on because it is impossible to explain why you lied in the first place . |
| 10 | actually asked in the first place . |
| 11 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 12 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 13 | By removing the incentive to become or to stay competitive , countries risk losing in the longer term the benefits they sought in the first place . |
| 14 | What a pity she did not discover that all she needed in the first place to remove the ‘ writer 's cramp ’ was to rest her right elbow on the table when writing instead of letting it hang over the edge without support ! |
| 15 | It 's jazz and soul as a street thing , a club thing , ’ he says , ‘ which is where both those forms of music started and thrived in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | Comfort eating and disliking yourself are two classic symptoms of depression , so try to work out why you started in the first place . |
| 17 | More than likely , you came out of the cinema wondering why you went in the first place . |
| 18 | Or was that where all the money went in the first place ? |
| 19 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 20 | If during the period of habituation the touch of the glass rod is coupled with some other stimulus — say a bright light — the original response at once returns in full , so it can not be merely because of exhaustion that it disappeared in the first place . |
| 21 | I never knew in the first place ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 23 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 24 | ‘ Although you should n't need to hear it , and you should never have believed what you did in the first place … |
| 25 | Advertising and public relations can try to improve or change the image of a client but this is always limited by the nature of how the reputation was built and earned in the first place and how the client will really act in the future . |
| 26 | said in the first place ! |
| 27 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |
| 28 | Fear of losing what we never had in the first place . |
| 29 | One roadie said I should have thought about it before I accepted in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | Many stores have run out of vacuum cleaners — and hundreds are being offered in newspaper small ads at a bargain £60 as shoppers try to sell cleaners they never wanted in the first place . |