Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.

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1 well why did she come and live down here in the first place ?
2 Half of them did n't , they were up illegally in the first place , working the under-side of the system , the jobs nobody wants .
3 " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . "
4 And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place .
5 ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place .
6 But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then .
7 But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place .
8 up there in the first place without anything .
9 As the benefit money came in we sent a lot of it out to Suzie 's parents — we thought that if we found something we wanted to buy out there and did choose to emigrate , having the money out there in the first place would make it all that much easier .
10 ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’
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