Example sentences of "in [prep] the [num ord] place " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
3 | ‘ What I ca n't understand , ’ the Archdeacon went on , ‘ is why Dersingham put Marr in in the first place . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | No , it 's the ones who bring them in , who brought them in in the first place — ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | And why did you climb in in the first place ? ’ |