Example sentences of "out [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.

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1 The CBI rejects warnings that companies will hide behind the new anti-hacking laws , rather than make efforts to keep intruders out in the first place .
2 ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ .
3 They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place .
4 That was the idea of the union starting out in the first place .
5 If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place .
6 Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant .
7 He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp .
8 We never got them out in the first place .
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