Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 2 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 3 | Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place . |
| 4 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 5 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 6 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 7 | This is normally accompanied by the equally widespread concentration on the factual content or the basic manipulative skills in the material and the associated neglect of the higher-level objectives that were probably the author 's main motivation in developing it in the first place . |
| 8 | But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem . |
| 9 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 10 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 11 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 12 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 13 | well I suppose their motto is , she had a C D ten on her driving licence , I suppose she should n't of had it in the first place so if she had n't of had it , he would n't of got it ! |
| 14 | The turnover may have to be greatly reduced in this situation until the young fish are large enough to withstand the water flow , so why employ it in the first place ? |
| 15 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |
| 16 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 17 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
| 18 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 19 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 20 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 21 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 22 | Thought you were so damn smart getting it in the first place , and drink has blurred you so much you 've blown it . |
| 23 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 24 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 25 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |
| 26 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 27 | I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place . |
| 28 | We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 30 | Course , what you 've got to think of , Conservatives are the one that started it in the first place . |