Example sentences of "there [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 2 | Among them , a black and white jackdaw hopped , a magic sign of great portent and possibly the reason why the camp had been pitched there in the first place . |
| 3 | THE extraordinary thing about Laura Ashley is not that it has been dragged back from the financial brink ; it is that it was ever pushed there in the first place . |
| 4 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
| 5 | With the wisdom of hindsight it is easy to say that they should not have tried to raid there in the first place , but success had bred a certain arrogance . |
| 6 | For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place . |
| 7 | And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place . |
| 8 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps you only forgot things you did n't want to be there in the first place . |
| 10 | The young MFI salesman who is only concerned in making sure the commission on your purchase accrues to him , not his colleague , has forgotten why he is there in the first place . |
| 11 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
| 12 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 13 | She should never have gone there in the first place . |
| 14 | How did these faulty presuppositions get there in the first place ? |
| 15 | As the benefit money came in we sent a lot of it out to Suzie 's parents — we thought that if we found something we wanted to buy out there and did choose to emigrate , having the money out there in the first place would make it all that much easier . |
| 16 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |
| 17 | The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two . |
| 18 | The first step is to check what is there in the first place . |
| 19 | ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place . |
| 20 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |
| 21 | A glance at the map of Ireland immediately raises the question ‘ Why was the plant there in the first place ? ’ |
| 22 | Surely Tom one of the main criteria should be placing seats in the studio theatre for something with a bit more comfortable that way perhaps the punter 's will come back more often it 's easier to make a punter come back than it is getting in there in the first place . . |
| 23 | The housewife has to get the washing there in the first place , she has to unload it , sort it , sit and watch it wash and dry ( or dash out to shop in the interim ) and then pack it all up again . |
| 24 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 25 | I know , you would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 26 | On the other hand , she did not feel that she could refuse him , because if she refused him , by what right and for what purpose had she gone there in the first place ? |
| 27 | Up to this point in our considerations the informational process may seem to have been followed of which many youngsters complain : they are told that " Mummy 's egg " is livened by " Daddy 's seed " but not how Daddy 's seed got there in the first place ! |
| 28 | So , establishment for staphylococcusorius is often not an important feature because in the majority of infections we 're talking about an endogenous infection , the organism was there in the first place . |
| 29 | ‘ Or what is she never went there in the first place ? ’ |
| 30 | And also actually getting them there , themselves there in the first place is very difficult . |