Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 2 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 3 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 4 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 5 | Arm and back heights too , can be varied since they have to be built separately in the first place , and there is almost always a large range of covers available for the choosing within the price range . |
| 6 | For effectiveness , then , magazines and journals tend to reach the most relevant markets , provided they are selected carefully in the first place . |
| 7 | If a house is not built soundly in the first place , and if it is not kept in good repair , it will fail when put to the test . |
| 8 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 9 | What about for traders I mean , erm obviously you ca n't really c er why you ca n't comment on the fact that er how your father o o can you comment on how your father actually moved here in the first place . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 12 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
| 13 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 14 | She should never have gone there in the first place . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | And then I did something even more stupid than the having gone there in the first place . |
| 17 | But there could be no going back on the decision to end National Service , which had been taken over-hastily in the first place , and without adequate consultation in the second . |
| 18 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 19 | So it 's not as , it , it 's erm uniformly spread everywhere in the first place , it 's directed first at the focus and then when you meet another person whom you realize has the same ego ideal , then you identify them , with them by a kind of secondary erm secondary identification . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They drifted apart as casually and amicably as they had drifted together in the first place , with no ill-will on either side . |
| 22 | Without engaging in processes such as these , nobody would have been able to create the procedures and systems mentioned above in the first place . |
| 23 | ‘ Or what is she never went there in the first place ? ’ |