Example sentences of "idea [prep] the [num ord] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was his idea in the first place to try celibacy when the Hare Krishna lot came round ten years ago with their gongs . |
| 2 | The British — who had dreamed up the Free City idea in the first place — came out of the exercise very badly , while the Dutch and Italians did rather better . |
| 3 | The helium-3 is what Palmer was trying to produce as it was the presence of this gas in the atmosphere that had stimulated his idea in the first place , but detecting it would not be easy . |
| 4 | ‘ Such as the fact that it was Nicky 's idea in the first place , because she wanted to show off Taroko Gorge to me as it 's so famous , and that originally all three of us were supposed to go . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ This trip was Kelly 's idea in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | It begins with the concept , where someone has the bright idea in the first place . |
| 7 | Some staff felt they needed to go back one stage and ask why a formula was a good idea in the first place . |