Example sentences of "job [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having your real job abolished must mean there was no real job in the first place . |
| 2 | That was the common ground between us ; the reason I got the job in the first place was because I could play The Faces ' ‘ Three Button Hand Me Down ’ . |
| 3 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 4 | If you were so evidently inept , why did the company see fit to give you the job in the first place ? |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't 'ave troubled ter go after the job in the first place , Danny , ’ he was saying , ‘ but yer know she worries . |
| 6 | No one can remove that personal responsibility from you , and if you do not discharge it ( through fear of a powerful chairman , or personal ambition , or even seeking an easy life ) , you should not have accepted the job in the first place . |
| 7 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |