Example sentences of "on [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 2 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 3 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 4 | She wished she had not put the lamp on in the first place because she was sure he would be able to fathom out how she felt . |
| 5 | It was also based on the even worse assumption that the actual level of income support in April 1990 was sufficient for people to live on in the first place . |
| 6 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 7 | I do n't quite know why they put that edge on in the first place . |
| 8 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 9 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |