Example sentences of "in the [adj] place he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 2 | In the first place he had only approached Rufus because Rufus had a car . |
| 3 | In the first place he disputed the contention of Oldfield 's lawyer that the original , 1972 contract was unfair . |
| 4 | In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch . |
| 5 | In the first place he has desired me to say he would write but for his constant occupation . |
| 6 | The resident male who was displaced then comes back and looks after all the eggs , including those of the pirate and the reason he does it presumably in the first place he ca n't distinguish which eggs he 's fertilized and those fertilized by the pirate and secondly , he knows he 's fertilized some of the eggs and therefore it pays him to stay and look after all of them . |
| 7 | In the first place he must be aware that until 1 January 1752 the old year began on Ladyday , 25 March . |
| 8 | In the first place he draws our attention to the fact that not all our desires are for our own future states of affairs , desires can be impersonal . |
| 9 | In the second place he was behaving as if this was a holiday — a welcome break from his busy life — and if she wanted to go back it would mean he would go back too . |
| 10 | Was this the Devil himself come to fetch them , black cloaked and wealthy , splenetic and anxious to be back in the warm place he came from … |