Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] place i " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because they are so efficient at tempting big barbel to bite in the first place I keep trying different ways of fishing with them to try to overcome the problem . |
| 2 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |
| 3 | In the first place I do not know exactly what it was like in all its details . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , because , in the first place I had the radio on , and what with the paraffin stove going — that makes a bit of noise — and a towel round my head … |
| 5 | In the first place I do not accept the representative theory of perception . |
| 6 | And the reason in the first place I did leave the building trade was my hands was breaking out with in industrial disease , see ? |
| 7 | In the first place I consider only a very small , very non-random set of examples , only four of them in any detail . |
| 8 | In the first place I am happy to say I have a most comfortable ship the ‘ Parsee ’ ’ although a small one 350 tons Barque with a commodious poop , no steerage passengers and not more than ten or twelve cabin p[assengers] . |
| 9 | But in the first place I believe we should direct our attentions to unschooled lay usages of the word . |
| 10 | In the first place I felt uneasy with the talk about Apaches and John Russell sitting there . |
| 11 | in the first place I just find it |
| 12 | We 're in the right place I suppose ? |
| 13 | No , his , his in the right place I suppose in the event of any thing happening are n't you . |
| 14 | In the first place , he 's wealthy and in the second place I never could get on with his father . |
| 15 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 16 | ‘ If you must know , ’ Leith exploded , her anger turning to fury at the way he , with his ‘ two men at least ’ comment , had made it sound as though she were some tart , ‘ I had a bad experience in the last place I worked . ’ |