| 单词 | in the first place |
| 例句 | Maybe it will even make him forget why he brought me in here in the first place. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But if he’d gotten to the training center in the first place, it surely meant that somewhere along the line he probably lied. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At least he assumed this was that girl—she was the one Clyde had seen leaving the card in the first place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z If he went to the rangers, however, they would have some irksome questions for him: Why had he ignored posted regulations and driven down the wash in the first place? Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Why would she understand them in the first place? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But Genie also didn’t know why Grandpop did a lot of things, like...carry one in the first place. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was like he’d forgot Papa was the one that bought Big Red and Satan in the first place. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Which was the whole reason the hood was built in the first place, to keep the victims of apartheid out of sight and out of mind. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “That’s probably the reason it was set up in the first place.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Then why do business with them in the first place?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z To be honest, I don’t know what Auntie Buzz was thinking, giving three teenagers a car in the first place, but she only sees the positives of a situation, none of the negatives. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But he acknowledges that people can’t raise those objections if they don’t understand their tissues are being used in the first place. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I actually didn’t have a game in mind in the first place and had to make one up on the fly. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t get it. Why did you have to give me a pet name in the first place? What’s the point?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The way I was walking in the first place. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “You spotted them in the first place, Jason. Old Eagle Eyes. If I was a sheriff, I'd pay you a reward.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I just wanted the movie to be about Uncle Billy because he drank a lot and was fat and lost the money in the first place. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “But we need to do more than just avoid getting into trouble. We need to focus on how to make the right decisions so you aren’t in trouble in the first place.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It came now as a startling and painful realization that he’d had something and lost it without fully understanding that he’d had it in the first place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I had neglected to tell Adam that I was applying to Juilliard in the first place, which was actually harder than it sounded. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hadn’t they heard the misogynistic comment that came after I had told him to do what he was supposed to be doing in the first place? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He could not bear to join the Weasleys, could not look into their eyes, when if he had given himself up in the first place, Fred might never have died.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There is thus, in the first place, this variety of types. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘What amazes me,’ Sophie said, ‘is how you ever learned to write in the first place.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Why hadn’t I challenged Leo’s birthday in the first place? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If the wounded pigeons were in misery, he wondered, why put them there in the first place by shooting them? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Remembering past losses wasn’t helpful, and those thoughts creeping into my psyche before competitions were what created the anxieties in the first place. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z A deal Sam conveniently ignored whenever he felt like it, and their mother, who brokered the compromise in the first place, always let Sam get away with it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I see the green field we’re approaching and I know I should be relieved I’m almost there, I’m almost safe again, but there was never any true danger in the first place. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “But why, Bertha,” said Dumbledore sadly, looking up at the now silently revolving girl, “why did you have to follow him in the first place?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And that, to me, is the only reason to leave home in the first place—to buy things. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z And where did she get those answers in the first place? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z This might seem to beg the question of how the ball got rolling in the first place—the ‘first cause’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Because you didn’t want him to take it in the first place!” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She moved to sit up, not entirely sure what had caused her to stir from sleep in the first place. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Without it, we might well ask whether art exists in the first place. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did I even agree to do the stupid film in the first place? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The more I thought about her the more I was against marrying her in the first place. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Everyone knows Kvothe was clever with a lute. That’s why the widow had taken such a shine to him in the first place, and playing music every night was part of his chores.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "Don't tell me,” Uncle Brian sniffed, "you got it MOT'ed at the very same place that sold you your mobile pagoda in the first place?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t me that stopped you in the first place.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The best way to not get shot was to not be there in the first place. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe what they’d done had proven to the weapons that they were worthy of wielding them in the first place. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Then how could he tell you the man was a spy in the first place? En’t that an official secret?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z If you didn’t understand, and you’re the one who asked for a secret message in the first place, then why would anyone else? The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Either she’ll tell you a lie, and you still won’t know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But, in the first place, it isn’t my fault if they buried Maman yesterday instead of today, and second, I would have had Saturday and Sunday off anyway. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I still think not failing in the first place has got to be the better than getting up after you fail. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I decide to keep the shirt to remind me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Family and work can make a return to school seem even harder than finishing it in the first place. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z A Pyrrhic victory is one where you win, but the cost of winning is so high that it would’ve been better if you'd never bothered with the war in the first place. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The message from Miss Perumal was obviously real, so why hadn’t she told him in the first place? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z If Dad'd married this Cynthia in the first place, instead of Mum, and if they'd had a son, would it have been me? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He shouldn’t have even set foot down it in the first place. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Or was it heroic because she was willing to fix it in the first place? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Why had they come to this country in the first place? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z You could glance at Gus and never know he’d been sick, but I carried my disease with me on the outside, which is part of why I’d become a homebody in the first place. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “I got Oppenheimer that job in the first place,” he complained, as though Oppie’s blunder reflected poorly on his own judgment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He’s the one who told me the angel comes to the seventh step in the first place and you’d think he’d know why I’m sitting there. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And I wish he’d never found Viola in the first place. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I still have the hatchet and that’s all I had in the first place. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z As if I ever thought I was in the first place. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “It probably wasn’t even legal in the first place, so it only counts as a halfsie,” she told me once. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was the problem of getting the rope over the branch in the first place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A voice cut right between them, reminding them why they’d come down the hill in the first place. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But that’s the whole point of the Persian flaw—it’s there to remind you of all the other flaws, and even the flaw that makes you unable to see them in the first place. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In fact, if it hadn’t been for Sahil, I wouldn’t even be doing this in the first place. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Why were they allowed to rule over us in the first place? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He looked up, wanting answers, but Alby was already gone, a trembling branch the only sign he’d ever stood there in the first place. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z In a little less than four hours I was equipped, riding on big heavy-duty tires of a kind that should have been there in the first place. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “See, that’s exactly the sort of disrespect for authority that got you here in the first place.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I've spent so much time trying to figure out how to save my brother that I'd nearly forgotten the drawings that had gotten him into trouble in the first place. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Stone, who had had reservations about getting married in the first place, now faced the public humiliation of dealing with an unfaithful husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She also didn’t ask him what he had done to get grounded in the first place. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Why did they even need to have another kid in the first place? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He never stopped talking, and what was awful was, he never said anything you wanted to hear in the first place. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “I mean, she shouldn’t have agreed to give up her baby in the first place, if she didn’t want to.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Until the next time he remembers what made him mad in the first place.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The Peruvian doctors were following WHO protocol, retreating Christian with standard first-line antibiotics that had failed to stop the TB in the first place. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “How did they get out in the first place?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I am a little ashamed that you were not sensible enough to realize what might happen, in the first place.' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z And besides, I thought they were my real friends in the first place. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It was as if they’d forgotten that it was a Republican president who’d governed us into this mess in the first place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z What if she'd never left her husband in the first place? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z For a moment she imagined that Pilate, who had brought her son to life in the first place, was now bound to see him dead. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not, in the first place, behave at all like contractors. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That was why they’d made everyone pretty in the first place. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They couldn’t sue over the cells being taken in the first place for several reasons, including the fact that the statute of limitations passed decades ago. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps, your only real hope is not crossing paths with one in the first place. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “But Poppy, what was happening at the camp in the first place?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “How about I just tell him that it’s the whole reason we came here in the first place,” I said, “and leave your tongue out of it?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z On the one hand, it was her mom’s own stupid fault for even being in rehab in the first place. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Instead of the squeal I knew wouldn’t come out of me in the first place, I sighed. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And none of it was anything Luna remembered putting in those cupboards in the first place. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Johnny had not notified him, although he had founded this club in the first place. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But the area it covered—that was no small bit of land, and there was no real guarantee that it was supposed to represent an area code in the first place. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I try to channel that spark of energy that made me enter the pageant in the first place. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The fact that his parents had neither asked him about honey badgers, or even knew why he cared about them in the first place, never stopped him from offering up random info at random times. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But who in the world would have known to take it in the first place? When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “This never would have happened if he’d listened to me in the first place,” Old Cob muttered. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Jackson might not have been mine, and it might be his fault that I'm stuck in Summerland in the first place, but I still loved him. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I have to admit, he was funny as hell, which was probably why so many kids liked him in the first place, although he was a lot more than just another pothead clown. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z If she had only told the truth about herself in the first place, the Smokies would have known what to do with the pendant. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Finally we called on some distant relations, who scolded us profusely for not having come to them in the first place. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The strange part was that Patrick would walk up to Brad in the first place. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z And if she could rescue Nin, if she could get to her in time, maybe that would make up for letting them take her in the first place. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Someone so young shouldn’t be dead; shouldn’t even have been here in the first place. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But by straining to recover the factual ingredients in the story, we have inadvertently ignored the most obvious question—namely, what were these two prominent American statesmen doing on the ledge in the first place? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I’m not smart enough to be writing poetry in the first place, though Mr. Ward says I’m smarter than I know. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She liked to believe that he had never loved her in the first place. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Why wasn’t the matter reported to the police in the first place, the Inspector wanted to know. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought it was Marlena’s act that inspired you to join this show in the first place, Jacob. Was I wrong?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Where the garment came from in the first place I do not know. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z We also agreed that I was the coolest little sister for going through with the plan in the first place. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Of course, women’s freedom—here, he shook his head ruefully—is also one of the reasons people out there took up arms in the first place. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Not to mention whacking them over the head with a club in the first place. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The visit had been her grandmother’s suggestion in the first place, but April agreed that it was a good idea. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But then again, he’s the one who brought a gun into our equation in the first place. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “The same reason you kissed me in the first place.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Wyatt says of her: “She thinks: Why spend all of our time fixing problems when we can perhaps devote a little time preventing them in the first place?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Others said that only a girl who was mad would enter a fairy ring in the first place. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed it was seeing her in Shakespeare’s play at the Paris Odeon that detonated the infatuation in the first place. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The first challenge many blacks faced in participating in something like the All-American Soap Box Derby was finding out about it in the first place. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Now that he saw them, he wondered how he had missed them in the first place. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Others claim to have never really supported the incorrect view in the first place or, if they did, it was only to show that it was inconsistent. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “But what I don’t understand,” I said, “is why people would want students treated so badly in the first place.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A gun opponent might argue that the gun has to be kept out of the mugger’s hands in the first place. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z If it hadn’t been for her, Macbeth never would have killed the king in the first place. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary La- Follette had never been happy about Thula’s marriage in the first place, and she was decidedly unhappy now with Harry and the way things had unfolded. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If his father had cared about him one bit, he would not have invited Leandra to Las Vegas in the first place. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “To get arrested in the first place, I mean,” she said. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t regret doin’ what we did,” Cat said, “but I regret takin’ my crew so far west in the first place. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z As he observed, if Vandenberg truly harbored doubts about Oppenheimer, why would he have appointed him to the committee in the first place? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I was sore at Father all right, for us having to be there in the first place. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z About the other Witch, who found the children in the forest and brought them to safety, not knowing what horrors had delivered them into this predicament in the first place. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z And why had they come into the secret passage in the first place? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z That was all they had wanted in the first place. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z There’s tightness to the sheriff’s voice, but I’m too relieved that the whip has ceased its torment for the moment to analyze why he would even listen to Mr. Gideon in the first place. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There's way too much whipped cream in that cup, Maya thought, then wondered when things like that had started bothering her about Claire in the first place. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “But what about if they don’t track? What’s the impetus for them to begin tracking regularly in the first place?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I shouldn't have called her in the first place. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps they so willingly parted with the security and sanctity of the black body because neither security nor sanctity existed in the first place. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “I’ll admit that this Frankenstein Complex you’re exhibiting has a certain justification—hence the First Law in the first place. But the Law, I repeat and repeat, has not been removed—merely modified.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She was the one who hadn’t understood in the first place. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I mean, I kind of ruined it in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z After all, football was what had brought the two of them to-gether in the first place, and it seemed destined to keep them together. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The problem is that there never should have been a situation like this in the first place,” she said, the anger creasing her forehead. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z This is why the bird went away in the first place. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z If he had known about the Deathly Hallows, he might not have needed Horcruxes in the first place. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z From where I sit, this looks like the case of a man who—maybe he didn't really want to be there in the first place, maybe he was already having second thoughts. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z That I went outside in the first place. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t even know why I was calling her in the first place. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It's bad enough that Brick's ordering us all to go to this whacked-out march in the first place. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It’s not like I can see him right now anyway, which was the problem in the first place. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Or had he ever really seen me in the first place? Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I suspect the latter is what got me into this predicament in the first place. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Boys. There were two. And I don’t even know why I wanted to do this in the first place.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I’m cussing myself for taking her out there in the first place. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Branwell answered the phone, and I could tell she did not want to believe me or believe that I had the right to be telling her in the first place. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was the other settlement that did the cutting off in the first place, cuz maybe Prentisstown really was contagious. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Not coming here in the first place— that seemed like an obvious choice—but my bare wrist, which makes it impossible for me to know how long I have been sitting in this room. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Dad, on the other hand, seemed more like those friends who had abandoned Erik, who now regretted ever getting involved with him in the first place. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That I didn’t want to come in the first place. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “Wait, what do you mean? Daddy’s the one who didn’t want me to do the pageant in the first place.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Or else he feels sorry about himself for being faithful in the first place. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Had he even wanted to save Amah in the first place? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Maybe they would wonder why he was even capable of throwing a punch in the first place. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “That’s the kind of customer we don’t want in the first place,” the grocer said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t make any difference to her, she was so evil in the first place,” Harry shrugged. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “That’s not what I mean. You know that’s not what I mean. What were you doing with her in the first place?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z By the time the unit is halfway through, I’ll bet no one will even remember why we started it in the first place. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Well why didn’t you list that among our assets in the first place?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He would not explain, and he seemed embarrassed to have mentioned this in the first place. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “If you felt the same way about school, you wouldn’t be in this position in the first place.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s what inspired my parents to enroll me in Pine Mountain Academy in the first place. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But how did she get out in the first place? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z A woman asked, “Why was yer in the wood in the first place?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z After all, it’s mostly his fault I’m here in the first place. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z That information, of course, was in the prosecution’s possession and control, which is why Armstrong filed a discovery motion in the first place. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It seems real simple on my end. Your buddy shot someone and killed him and there was no justification for it in the first place. It is that simple.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “To get locked up in the first place,” he said. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It was nearly as crazy as there being a bird guy in town in the first place. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z This makes no difference to him, however, since he didn’t know I was hiding anything in the first place. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I told her about how it stunk to not be a famous TV star, even though I never knew before I wanted to be one in the first place. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z I would make the case a cause celebre, and make them regret they had ever charged me in the first place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You put in too much, Marly, in the first place. Look—that’s plenty for a start. And I should have told you about that damper.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe we shouldn’t have gotten married in the first place. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z What had I to do with his selling the dolls in the first place? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom says the only reason she has to work so hard in the first place is because our rent keeps going up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z ‘The ninth theory is that Salim never got on the Eye in the first place.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you weren’t, you never would have been here in the first place.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z At the tsar for starting this war in the first place. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “It’s my ticket. I’m the one who took it in the first place and it was in my pile and I get to say what we do with it.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z When the spell wore off he asked Uncle Willie what colored people had done to white people in the first place. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re not supposed to be the reason someone is heartbroken in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Kat had convinced me that theory nine, that Salim had never got on the pod in the first place, was wrong. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so sturdy looking and symmetrical, in the first place. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, did he even want to taste you in the first place? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I can never remember things I didn’t understand in the first place. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She put us through it in the first place. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Besides, I still have no idea what I will decide, still have no clue how I would determine to stay or not stay in the first place. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It had almost become a game online to speculate where Z had gone and what he had been doing in the school in the first place. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He couldn’t read notes in the first place but he knew a few chords. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The thing is, people can’t “think of doing that on the front end” unless they know their tissues might be valuable to researchers in the first place. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z If we could see one another’s pain and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It served me right for being stupid enough to get drunk in the first place. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z So why didn’t Gandalf give the ring to the giant eagles in the first place? Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z But saying “please” without actually saying it to someone you don’t want to say “please” to in the first place tops the list of hard. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you think it probably has a hole in it somewhere, and that’s why it doesn’t have any air in the first place?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But if Father had been practical, he probably would not have been trying to fly in the first place. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky looked as if it hadn’t blackened in the first place. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He cursed himself for not having brought an umbrella, for going out in the first place. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Wishing she could be the co-adventurer in the fantasy she lit in the first place, introducing me to the magical escape of musical comedy. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z On the other hand, he was stubbornly convinced that Edward was at fault — because, if not for him, I wouldn’t have left home in the first place. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z And in thinking about how I couldn’t tell Chris that, I started thinking about why I was actually so into them in the first place. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Father said, “What were you doing shimmying up that tree in the first place, Ruth May?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z With Zu still crying in the backseat and me having no idea where we had been headed in the first place, to say I was relieved was an understatement. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Still,” said Uncle Shepsel, “it is better not to be a Jew in the first place.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Personally, I don’t know why they moved to Bushwick in the first place,” Warren continues. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Gathered that much when you ignored my warning and became a Junior Agent trainee in the first place,” says Agent Magnus. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Not that anyone in her family was the type to try to stop her from wearing them in the first place. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “But how could he know it was Lord Asriel’s kid who was there in the first place?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z What did surprise him was the fact that the man had managed to get so close to him in the first place. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z But where had it come from in the first place? the Sisters asked themselves. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z My teacher Ms. Washington’s actually the one who got Grace interested in theater in the first place. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Pa didn’t mean for us to go to Madison Square Garden in the first place. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Don’t you wonder how only Dog’s mother got up to the sky in the first place?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Even still, cutting class is a serious offense, Mustafa, boring or not. You shouldn’t have been with those kids in the first place.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “I’m still mad at myself for letting her say it in the first place.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z And she didn’t understand the saying, she didn’t understand how a person watched themselves in the first place. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Not only was her mother willing to name her Temptress in the first place, but she wasn’t smart enough to know what that word even meant. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z What if he forgets he even asked me to come by in the first place? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I thought I was the one who should be annoyed at him, though, because if he wanted to know my name, that’s what he should have said in the first place. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z “He was looking for our description. I was wrong to use the road in the first place.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z We barely knew what was going on in the first place, and now, if things had changed, we didn’t know what to believe or how to act. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been a battle to get my request taken seriously in the first place and an even bigger one to get it approved. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She started up the stairs to the porch, leaving Genie and Ernie in the yard, unsure of why she’d called them home in the first place. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “But sometimes I wish Dallben hadn’t given it to you in the first place. It’s bound to lead to trouble.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z It’s why we had to move in the first place, and why my parents keep fighting now. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “But whose idea was it to do that cutting in the first place?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was because I didn’t like crab in the first place. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They were paying their respect to whatever it was that made him be a doctor in the first place, when the odds were that he’d be a yardman all of his life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Since when is candy contraband? Why did they come after my daughter in the first place?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z His hopes sank lower and lower, and he felt utterly despondent, bitterly regretting his offer to take the animals in the first place. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Nico is the reason for all the puzzles in the first place. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z We clean up the plate and spoon, and Sandy throws out the rest of the fish and its insides and all back into the river, the way I’d asked him to in the first place. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z “What would I do with a poodle in the first place?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo had almost forgotten why they’d come down here in the first place. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He didn't even know how Zero knew there were twenty-six in the first place. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I wonder if that means he didn’t want to die; and if so, why he shot himself in the first place. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “You have to help me. You’re pardy responsible. You said so yourself. If not for you I would never have gone into this in the first place. You just can’t shrug me off now.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She wondered if he was regretting agreeing to meet with them in the first place. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Shorty was the one who named me Red in the first place, and that was good enough for Boston. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I had followed her there in the first place. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Hooper still thought it was all a game, he kept forgetting about the storm and how frightened he’d been, forgetting that they were lost, and why they had come here in the first place. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z And it probably wasn’t that funny in the first place. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “Why you think I became a Garden Disciple in the first place? I wanted to go after whoever killed Law.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Jan shrugged his shoulders, smiled and said: “All right. I saw her. So what? You know why I didn’t say so in the first place. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “You should be mad at me. It was stupid to pass the note in the first place. At least this cipher challenge sounds cool.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z With her light skin, golden curls, and blue eyes I wonder how it was she ended up in a Negro school in the first place. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But the real conundrum that heredity solves is much more general: What is the nature of instruction that allows an organism to build a nose—any nose—in the first place? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I knew it was music that brought us together in the first place, put us in the same space so we could even get to know each other. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “How she managed to be named Aspirant in the first place I don’t understand. Women have no place in the military.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It would have been so much easier to know that she was pregnant in the first place. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The only reason I’d gone out for the team in the first place was because my dad had forced me into it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z And that was precisely when I totally figured out how I—Finn Easton—could never have been trapped in my dad’s novel in the first place. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I forgot that the reason I had these students as freshmen in the first place was that I was told, “Things are based on seniority around here.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The funny part, though, is that Mikayla’s mom was the one who gave me my very own Cobalt Blue Orchid in the first place. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I don’t know why I invited him to come along with me in the first place. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Forgot why he left in the first place and was forced to sneak into his own home ground. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve made my own situation worse and I don’t think I’ve helped Scott, which was the reason I went there in the first place. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “She gave up the baby in the first place,” Mrs. Richardson said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Nixon wanted to know how such an unstable character had gotten hold of McNamara’s study in the first place. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “But Milligan,” asked Sticky, “how will you escape? For that matter, how did you ever escape in the first place? I remember that Waiting Room—there was no way out!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I don’t even know why she came out with him in the first place. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Help me God help me if that was it because I knew him and loved him better than anybody except True Belle who is the one made me crazy about him in the first place. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Add two and zero and you get two; it is as if you never bothered to add the numbers in the first place. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Why was there so much of it in the first place? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But instead of trying to scratch those itches, I pick up my phone and FaceTime the person who encouraged me to post the story in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The question is: Why didn’t you choose B in the first place? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been a mistake not to rely on Yuri’s help when he had offered it, just as it had been a mistake not to listen to Mrs. Brenner in the first place. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Why not just use the verb that spawned the zombie in the first place, like appear or perform? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “You poor lost chicken, why didn’t you say so in the first place? Tell me, how is dear little Dallben?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “They were the ones who wanted to treat you differently in the first place,” Agent Magnus grumbles. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z But even before the little brown speck, there must have been the conditions, the setting that would allow it to exist in the first place. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was bad enough he’d thrown that book away in the first place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She said, “I don’t know why he saved a three-dollar razor in the first place.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Those watching looked shocked, like it was as awful for Camp to be brought home like a regular corpse as for him to of shot himself in the first place. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “I looked at Constantine and I felt so much shame for her. To get pregnant in the first place and then to lie...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “What did you take the money for in the first place?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z They had only turned it up because he was too loud in the first place. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “How was it all set up in the first place?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z ‘My point,’ Jason said, ‘is that blaming each other isn’t going solve anything. That’s how the Romans and Greeks got divided in the first place.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z That’s why I wanted to come to school in the first place. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z She laughed and said, “That’s good. I’s kind of surprised your folks let you go to that meeting in the first place.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She had not wanted to leave her father’s house in the first place. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I probably never needed to go to a doctor in the first place. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z She stopped, suddenly remembering why she’d invited Pearl to this brunch in the first place. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She looked excited again as she remembered what she had burst in here to tell me in the first place. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “But she raised the giant in the first place,” the second judge argued. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Libby arrived, panting, breaking the news about the audition in the first place. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “You set me up with Detective Barrone in the first place.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z It’s all anyone will talk about, and it’s driving me up the wall, because what everyone should be talking about is why Sandy Sanders ran away in the first place. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Or the fact that I’m gay in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The courses seemed esoteric and disconnected from the race and poverty issues that had motivated me to consider the law in the first place. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “If the passageways are that confined and narrow, how did the cabin boy ever drag the pirate’s treasure down to the chamber in the first place?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Him, or perhaps the person who created him in the first place.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It was much easier to carry than the suitcase, so much easier that she wondered why she had brought a suitcase in the first place. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “She didn’t want you to reveal what was outside the fence? Why not? How did she even know about it in the first place? I thought you said only the Abnegation leaders knew.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z And even though I’m the clear loser of this fight, they can still call the police on me for trespassing and brawling in the first place. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z They can take care of themselves in a wilderness, but they are naive and helpless against men, and perhaps that is why they went out in the first place. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Because don’t you forget, Brady—it was your frickin’ idea in the first place!” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “Ideas about big things, such as the universe, and good and evil, and why things exist in the first place.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Or it may simply be that he humored her and did not think much of her opinions in the first place. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Wasn’t that the problem in the first place? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z None of this had been my choice in the first place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Hard to summon sorrow, to grieve the deaths of people Laila had never really thought of as alive in the first place. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “And, you know, we wouldn’t have gotten in a fight in the first place if you were honest with me about the Hideout messages.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z And now she couldn’t even remember where she’d gotten the ball in the first place. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Why were there eggs and bread and milk in the first place? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His enemies made much of the deception, labeling Lincoln a coward and refusing to believe that such a plot existed in the first place. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “And it isn’t just about these last several days. This has been something I’ve thought about for a while now. In retrospect, you were never suitable for this position in the first place.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Mr. P already went to bat for me. He’s pretty much the reason I didn’t get suspended for sending the picture to Patrick in the first place.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z It’s over a year away, and what would the army want with a conk-headed hustler like me in the first place? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thanks, but don’t worry I should hold it, as punishment for wearing it in the first place.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Obviously you might cure a cancer of the womb by not having a womb in the first place. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Besides, I didn’t want that old watch in the first place.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z HARRY: I don’t know how you became friends in the first place, but you did, and now—I need you to— ALBUS: My best friend? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z “Come on. If people didn’t have guns in the first place, we’d be way better off.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The wood, Pocock murmured, taught us about survival, about overcoming difficulty, about prevailing over adversity, but it also taught us something about the underlying reason for surviving in the first place. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I forgot the reason I came over here in the first place. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Only, of course, the chain around his leg held him back, which was the reason he’d chained himself to the tree in the first place. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat there, looking at the house, and I had a hard time remembering why we had come in the first place. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z One day Dad was just gone, and we stopped talking about him like he’d never existed in the first place. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z "Are you serious? Why were you out on that road in the first place? Weren't you behind the wheel?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “It serves you right for not doing what you were supposed to. I never should have brought you to school in the first place. See what happened because I tried to be Mr. Nice Guy.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she switched back to why she came to speak to me in the first place. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And when he said this, he seemed to remember everything else, and why we’d been talking about his animals in the first place, and the energy faded from his face. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It was bad enough he’d thrown that book away in the first place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Well, I never did either, but I wouldn't go killing myself about losing some money that I never had in the first place.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But, Em, how did David Marcel get the picture in the first place?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “Your dad had to pull some ‘old baseball buddy’ strings with the doctor—who is apparently his college teammate—to get permission for us to be in here in the first place. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Others countered that if they hadn’t found her in the first place, she would have died anyway. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z When he had gone to the bishop to be made a clerk in the first place, he had taken a pair of scissors with him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “How did you and Jack end up at the edge of the woods in the first place?” she said, pouring the milk into a tall glass. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The serious piece of folly had been to come back here in the first place, after buying the diary and without knowing whether the proprietor of the shop could be trusted. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Or maybe he’d never had Mood Slingshot Maneuvers in the first place. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I gently pull away and pretend he didn’t do that in the first place. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I asked Sister Mukumbu why our mother had been arrested in the first place. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But the same instinct that urged me to escape the Mask in the first place drives me to my feet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It was, like, a message for whoever she thought hid it in the first place.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Suzanne,” she said, “I wonder if you have ever given much thought to why people speak to one another. Why speech came about in the first place.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z You have to understand that I never would have used the library computers in the first place, except they block the wireless here. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z And why did I think of Arnold in the first place—when my mother looked in my rice bowl— and then come to hate him so much? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He shouldn’t have been in jail in the first place, but that was how it went. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Still, he retained a deserved sense of pride in having brought Lawrence to Berkeley in the first place. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In Clarkston, resentment was building toward the forces and people that had caused the town to change in the first place: the resettlement agencies and the refugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Grace suddenly wished that she had never brought up the subject in the first place. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z If the only reason the Nightbeast had come to Ravenskill in the first place was because of a witch, if they could find out who that witch was, maybe they could stop it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z This was exactly why I hadn’t told her about the rally in the first place. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I’m happy to see that Ellis is as annoyed as I am, but I’m working really hard not to get paranoid about why Ellis said anything about people thinking I’m gay in the first place. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “It was big magic to cast the spell in the first place. But it would be big magic to undo it too. Who can guess what would come of it?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Sobukwe believed that to fight poor conditions would be to acknowledge the state’s right to have him in prison in the first place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I should never have been shifted in the first place, and now that I was sent back to clean up the mess they should aid me as quickly as possible. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was folly to have thought of going in the first place, let alone staying. Come over to Madame Antoine’s; you can rest there.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why did you not ask for it in the first place?” he said crossly. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that I know what happened, why she wrote that poem in the first place, I feel awful. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I hold my breath, waiting for what she’s going to say—hoping that she’ll just lie, and we can pretend none of this ever happened in the first place. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z They were always after our land, which they never wanted us to have in the first place. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to get closer, but that’s exactly what got us into trouble in the first place. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “But it was probably Miss Sadie’s curse that doomed the quilt in the first place, don’t you think, Abilene?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z And they’d want to know why he was in the school in the first place instead of partying with the football team. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She questioned everybody, starting with Malvonne, an upstairs neighbor—the one who told her about Joe’s dirt in the first place and whose apartment he and the girl used as a love nest. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I had landed in the right country in the first place, and now I was back. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Few would have even consulted with them in the first place. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We never should have gone back to Afghanistan in the first place when things were so bad. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Look: It wasn’t the detour Cade and I took that brought me to realize how I’d never been trapped inside my father’s book in the first place. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I suppose you have to be scared enough to be on the lookout in the first place. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It was that store that brought her to town in the first place. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z She knew that now, of course, because both Max and Peach were gone and her hands were empty, scratched from clinging too tight to something that should never have been held in the first place. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It was, like, a message for whoever she thought hid it in the first place.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Borelli still saw a role for God in setting up the system in the first place—as the designer of the machine, if you like. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “I’ll never get to know how you wound up down here in the first place.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Again he ran through the airport, ending up near where he had gotten off in the first place. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z How had she found them in the first place? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The dead woman was nobody I knew personally, and this would free my audience from having to feel awkward or embarrassed for having broached the subject in the first place. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Actually, I’d just make it so that they don’t exist in the first place. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z In some ways it’s my fault we’re here in the first place.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The truth was I had no idea if a lawyer could help us or if Asif would agree in the first place. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Come to think of it, why am I in your office in the first place? Aren’t you supposed to be important or something?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z If something has happened, then so must its antecedent have done: if a man has forgotten something, it follows that he knew it in the first place. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z But taking a researcher to court required money, know-how, and the knowledge that you were being used for research in the first place. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He remembered now why he'd been standing under the tree in the first place. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “I never wanted to learn in the first place. My mother had this fantasy. One of many. I think my mother’s taking lessons now.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And how would I ex-plain to the police my being inside the house in the first place? Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She’s set in her thinking—and that kind of thinking is the reason we have things like the Holocaust in the first place.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It’s what they deserve, they joke, for having listened to their mothers, and for getting together in the first place, and the fact that they are united in their resignation makes the consequences somewhat bearable. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “But that’s why you created the game in the first place,” the boy answered. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I stay up while the house is quiet, drying clothes by the fire and sewing a rip in Helena’s skirt where I didn’t sew it very well in the first place. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The whole reason we’re in Puerto Rico in the first place is to find my dad so we can fix our lives in Springfield. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “We wouldn’t have had to climb in the first place.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z "She noticed he was alive in the first place." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A few months before I might have let it go at that—or probably wouldn’t have brought it up in the first place. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Many other nations have now launched spacecraft, including Britain, France, Canada, Japan and China, the society that invented the rocket in the first place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And why praise Jesus, since he let Khalil get shot in the first place? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “That is why we are going to India in the first place.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She was brainstorming ideas on how to leak something that wasn’t hers in the first place. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And Josiah—if only I had let him continue sleeping on the first day of training, perhaps he wouldn’t have gone to the front line in the first place. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Well, King, you were quite right,” he said, “and I should have listened to you in the first place. She is Lyra’s mother; I might have expected something like that.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She says if they had pills for that, they wouldn’t need places like this in the first place, would they? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Maybe even prevent our dads from getting fired in the first place. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Then she added, “Ben, why do you think they sent Ess here in the first place?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Why, for instance, if the Getty’s kouros was so obviously fake—or, at least, problematic—did the museum buy it in the first place? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I want you to see the way my mom spread her stuff into his side of the closet, how it looks like his suits were never even hanging there in the first place. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And he was the one to bring Dr. Martin here in the first place. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “We cannot be the ones to take them. That is what caused this in the first place. And I believe him that he would kill them if we tried.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I had help on the egg in the first place,” said Cedric. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I open the tin, ready to steal a few of the butter-flavored ones, praying Daddy won’t notice any are gone, praying he won’t realize I broke in here in the first place. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He hardly spent any time there, as if he didn't even want the job in the first place. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The worst story would’ve been never finding each other again, or never meeting in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “I was awake. I wish he would’ve knocked,” I said, also surprised—that he had been watching me in the first place. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The whole reason I came to Wilson in the first place was to escape the uncontrolled environment I was raised in. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Or when he decided to become a truck driver in the first place. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I understand that the sale is going lousy. Nobody wants to sell the chocolates in the first place and it’s turned into a kind of farce in some classes.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I lift my head just long enough to see Cora give me a smug look, and I know at that moment she’s the reason the sheriff caught me in the first place. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was hard enough for them to sign on to this plan in the first place. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z That's why, his mom said, they made fun of him in the first place. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z It not only explained mathematically the orbits of heavenly bodies, but also identified the attractive force that got them moving in the first place–gravity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “You had to tell us or we never would have moved our camp in the first place, brainless.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was horrible to know that he’d saved it in the first place, and kept it all that time.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z So I get up and put on my shoes and curse myself for wanting to leave in the first place. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, I would never have succeeded with this scheme if I hadn't made that A in the first place. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He didn’t even know where they’d gotten the truck in the first place. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I asked, remembering why I was out there in the first place. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I couldn’t stop wondering about who my biological parents were, what tribe they were from, or why I was adopted in the first place. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But now, I know how hard she fought to get us in the first place and how much it would hurt her if we left. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It was the reason they had the out-of-date, nearly flat soda in the first place—the only thing he’d put in his stomach all day. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It’s no wonder he got it in the first place, pulling stunts like that. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Oh, I’d found it again, but had he truly forgiven me for being so stupid about losing it in the first place? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Which is why I need a ride in the first place. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Mom says it was because the taxes got too high or because they didn’t own their homes in the first place. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z What she did not know—and I discovered many years later—was that someone in Florida had neglected to get the court’s permission for us to live with our relatives in the first place. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He hesitated as if he had lost the thread of his argument—not his own argument, perhaps, in the first place. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She ignores me entirely, in spite of wanting me to come in the first place. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z When they told him, “We are amazed at the good work God is doing here,” Richard wanted to ask why God had allowed the war to happen in the first place. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Whatever. I wish I’d never gone to school in the first place.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z We’d all done something bad to be put in a group home in the first place, right? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Well, apparently it is Hudson, or at least he answers to Hudson, but he’s not my Hudson, if my Hudson’s even a Hudson in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It seems like he forgot what it was that made him want to serve his country in the first place. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I also knew that he was one of the few guys at school who weren't really into prom in the first place. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z And I didn’t really think that person should get in trouble when they weren’t the person who was mean in the first place. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z With Eilonwy beside him, he continued gingerly, setting each foot carefully, remembering the sudden, sickening fall that had brought him there in the first place. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It was one of the many reasons why I didn’t want to move in here in the first place, but Tom wouldn’t leave. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z FINN: I never really cared about visiting Dunston in the first place. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z People thought I was crazy for choosing an obscure sport like fencing in the first place and then crazier for sticking with it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “And that none of it would have happened in the first place if Tushman hadn’t forced you to be friends with Auggie. He said his mom thinks that you, quote unquote, snapped under the pressure. ...” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Several cedar chests, so large that Molly wonders how they got up here in the first place, are lined up against a wall next to a stack of steamer trunks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But next to the sports complex, set slightly apart, as if to show off that it was there in the first place, was the hockey rink. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “Why are you making me come in the first place?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I don’t remember my parents fighting or why they even split up in the first place. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Although she worked a full-time job while in custody, most of her income went to repay the diversion program, not the underlying fine that put her in custody in the first place. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They were a reminder of why I was doing this in the first place. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “You didn’t want us to go in the first place, remember?” answered Mom. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z For a long time I wondered why he ever married a woman like my mom in the first place, as she was the opposite of that in every way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Because it was the whole reason why you came here in the first place,” Hideo says, his tone clipped. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Environmental Tipping Points are things that we can change: we can fix broken windows and clean up graffiti and change the signals that invite crime in the first place. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And then Harry remembered why he had been eager to come to Dumbledore’s office in the first place. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Even if what got them here in the first place was a criminal act. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z This is the kind of thing people in Jankburg make fun of, the kind of flamboyant stuff that got the arts funding all but cut from my school in the first place. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z And I had one additional bonus: I was the one who set them up in the first place. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And even after you do, you have no idea what the stupid word means except that it probably just means “said,” which is what stupid Charlotte Brontë should have said in the first place. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The rest of the neighborhood—bakers, fletchers, candle-makers, booksellers, builders, painters, other historians—would have to pretend they had never been friends with him in the first place. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Well, he would only lose an advantage that he never expected to have in the first place. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z After all, it’s his fault I fell in love with making movies in the first place. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z When I brush away more of the rocks and dirt, I see that the metal is lodged deep in the bank, so that it's probably what's holding the bank up in the first place. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Jefferson was an elegant stylist, to be sure, which was one of the main reasons that he, John Adams, had selected him to draft the famous document in the first place. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I said, which wasn’t what I would have said had he let me speak in the first place. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Was that why I had agreed to the operation in the first place? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z More often, the context makes it clear which affirmative statement was plausible in the first place, and hence which one the writer is going to the trouble of denying. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Then I shrugged, trying to think if I should’ve even answered him in the first place. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “It was easy for her to leave me, because she never wanted me in the first place,” I said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z To further complicate the psychological torment of this terrifying end, Kind Herod, who had encouraged Salome to dance for him in the first place, orders his soldiers to kill his stepdaughter there and then. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And why'd you start this whole war in the first place? The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z And her answer would be so smart that you’d start to realize maybe his question wasn’t so dumb in the first place. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She wouldn’t care how crazy Mrs. Charles acted—she’d be more upset that I was over there in the first place. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “But you didn’t want me to fly OUT in the first place!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I think she wished she hadn’t started this story in the first place. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Must be what she was coming down to attend to in the first place. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then again, this is probably the kind of elliptical logic that jammed up the highway in the first place. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “My friends wouldn’t have let me date a guy like him in the first place,” I tell her. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z What was it then between you, in the first place? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z By keeping my mouth shut in the first place, when Holly took her fall? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t have moved out in the first place if things hadn’t gotten so weird. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z We should’ve run in the first place, thought Seven, but Valley was hurt and Seven’s commentary wasn’t going to help. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Penelope knew this, but in her defense it should be noted that she had not planned to eavesdrop in the first place. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I remember forgetting, for that moment, why we had come to Miss Maggie’s in the first place. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z After all, these press briefings had been his idea in the first place. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Pushing my feet past the locked room, past Pop Pop snoring on the couch, and into the kitchen hallway, I soon forget what I needed in the first place. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “How much could a truck like that possibly cost? Assuming your aunt didn’t buy it for him in the first place.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The bargeman said he never shoulda taken it out in the first place. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I say all of that hoping that Tanisha will turn to face me, tell me she overreacted, tell me she’s sorry because she’s the one who started dissing me in the first place. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “But didn’t we put MoMo in power in the first place when the ROC elected a socialist president?” one of the black shirts asked. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z How had he got himself involved in a hunt, involved in a knife-and-broken-bottle fight in the first place? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He said yes immediately, as if that never should have been a question in the first place, and that was when I knew I wanted them in my life forever. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Junior became Junior again, which frankly was a nickname in the first place. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Looking at that stupid boy got me red-faced in the first place. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Drained by worry, abandoned by St. Christopher, she stopped fighting an eventuality that had never been fated in the first place. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The surrounding landscape grew covered with smoke, and it was even harder to find the way home than it had been to get to the target in the first place. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And then when you throw Rae in there...you know, the fact that she never wanted me in the first place? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z “Anyway, you’d have never known if I didn’t tell you in the first place. You’d think I was still an androgynous bookworm.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “I found it,” I say, not able to explain whose bookshelf it had come from or why I had been in Hollow Hall in the first place. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I shouldn't even have brought up my art in the first place. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He showed me the older series in the first place. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Instead of wondering what made crime fall, think about this: why had it risen so dramatically in the first place? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Maybe that’s why he wanted to go there in the first place. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Well.. . Voldemort said that he only killed my mother because she tried to stop him from killing me. But why would he want to kill me in the first place?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “So he slipped back through the same time warp he dropped out of in the first place.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z What was he doing on Nomansan Island in the first place? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t you say so in the first place?” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z And if it doesn’t, maybe you should think about exactly why you want to be talking to a bird in the first place. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z I think of the image in my mind that got me here in the first place: Mom, at the helm, steering us across the sky, keeping the course. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Because even if I can’t unsend the drawings, I can at least pretend like I didn’t send them in the first place. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Why was she there in the first place? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But I would never have been born in the first place if not for the great and selfless kindness Miss Peregrine had shown my grandfather. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Doesn’t matter—it’s all down to protocol in the end, and the bottom line is that I shouldn’t have taken that plane to France in the first place. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “But Jesus, man, if you hadn’t gotten yourself into this mess, neither of us would be here in the first place.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Is she unburdening herself, going along with it, or is she defiant, denying that she ever wanted help in the first place? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z M. Yoshoto looked at me as if he weren’t quite sure how I’d got into his kitchen in the first place, but nodded, and I walked quickly down the hall to my room. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z She didn’t want to patch it, and she was trying to make her stitches as invisible as possible so no one would be able to tell it had been torn in the first place. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Perhaps this was why the human traffickers had picked this dock in the first place. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I agreed to karaoke night in the first place because Dylan assured me we would all just do group songs. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z But it was the thought of home that drove him here in the first place. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I scratch at my braids and ask, “Why are people coming out here in the first place?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “He is listening. He can’t help listening. It’s what caused all the trouble for him in the first place.” How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the only reason he had volunteered for cadet training in the first place. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Explaining it—how it had gotten into Diana’s hands and why Cas had brought it to the school in the first place—was the hardest thing she’d ever had to do. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z This might even be the reason why Tess joined the Patriots in the first place—to beg them to save Day. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Maybe that’s the whole appeal of talk shows in the first place. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “How did we all get to be peculiar in the first place?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “How did you become a chicken in the first place?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “You should be mad at me. It was stupid to pass the note in the first place. At least this cipher challenge sounds cool.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Maybe making these will remind Lenny why he got together with her in the first place. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “I have plenty of my own reasons. In some ways it’s my fault we’re here in the first place.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z But I know whatever we are that it’s great because we kept jumping through the hoops in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z At least he assumed this was that girl—she was the one Clyde had seen leaving the card in the first place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “And now somebody decided he should be punished for not getting killed in the first place...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Silently, she cursed herself for entering the pageant in the first place. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “What does that mean? Wait, I still don’t get it: what was wrong with you in the first place?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Grandma says, Ah, God help us, why didn’t you tell me that in the first place? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z As leader, it was his fate to be punished for having the very qualities we admired in the first place. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They might’ve jeopardized their own lives to save someone who had no chance in the first place. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z One nice touch about Christy’s discovery was that it happened in Flagstaff, for it was there in 1930 that Pluto had been found in the first place. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But then again, it was me who pressed for Needles to go with us to that stupid party in the first place! When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z And maybe—just maybe—I’m supposed to find him by following the boy who brought him to the post office in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Once everyone had settled in, he raised his glass and said, “I’m so glad you could make it tonight. Let’s begin with a toast to Marcus, who brought us all together in the first place.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Threatening him wasn’t even my plan in the first place. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I’m angry at myself all over again for leading my mom to the Hideout in the first place. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z They create the appearance of racial equity without the reality and do so at no great cost, without fundamentally altering any of the structures that create racial inequality in the first place. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Again, it may help to look backward and see why crime had risen so much in the first place. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "But I gotta apologize to you too, for my part in all this mess. I pushed for him going to the stupid party in the first place. You didn't want him to go. I did." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I ask, thinking about what would hold me back from running in the first place. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z And whatever it was, to Thomas it meant one thing: the fact they could no longer see the sun probably meant they’d never been able to in the first place. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The sort of truth that leaves me wishing I’d never asked in the first place. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I knew how fortunate we were to have the resources to hire her in the first place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Which is why Box Boy was mailing the box in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Thomas regretted having come inside in the first place-—but he did want to talk to that Newt guy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z And how Calvin got into that hole in the first place. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I don’t want to have anything left unsaid, which I guess is the why I started writing these letters in the first place. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “The congregation will wonder what he was doing on the shore with her in the first place,” Mr. Stonecrop pointed out. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Thomas regretted having come inside in the first place—but he did want to talk to that Newt guy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And wasn’t telling the truth what got me here in the first place? Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I argued with Mom that I should have slightly more than half of the suitcase, since without me and my cancer, we’d never be going to Amsterdam in the first place. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Those that were not part of the restored Ptolemaic Empire were not really Mark Antony’s to give in the first place. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The only downside is that in order to keep Dylan’s secret, I can’t tell Elsie how I got the spell book or how I learned to paint illusions in the first place. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “So it’s not even like we get a chance to learn about them in the first place.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “If family were so important they wouldn’t be fighting in the first place.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Char says the only reason she lets me hang with her in the first place is to get her grades up. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z And while Nehemia might be playing a game that she had no chance of winning, Dorian couldn’t deny that he greatly admired the princess for daring to play in the first place. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But then, if Helene finds out why I'm down here in the first place, desecration will be the least of her complaints. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “What a joke! Poor little rich girl’s fallen in love with the Republic’s most famous criminal. And it’s even worse since you’re the reason he’s there in the first place. Right?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Most of these wardresses had no idea why we were in prison, and gradually began to discover what we were fighting for and why we were willing to risk jail in the first place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am glad you did not take my advice and go home in the first place.” Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn't remember why it had been so important to win in the first place. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “We shouldn’t have taken you guys there in the first place,” Lester said, wiping his nose on another napkin. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He’s not able to sit still either, which is probably why we became friends in the first place. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Answer: Mostly I was thinking about the money I’d get for the fish instead of how to get the fish in the first place. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I got that from your mother and Cook. My question is what caused the fit in the first place.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Which I think is a little crazy, considering that there are plenty of old houses they could just buy in the first place. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It’s my fault that our family broke apart in the first place, and Uncle Max knows it, just like everyone else in this house. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Arguing wouldn’t help; she could tell that his anger was mostly about being embarrassed that she’d managed to slip out of her rooms in the first place. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He has more stories than I’d requested in the first place. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But, niggled a dark voice in the back of his mind, she shouldn’t have been lost in the first place. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z But she would: The job was a bit of a sinecure after all; he would not have been offered it in the first place if the editor were not an old friend of hers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But maybe if our parents hadn’t forbidden us from seeing each other, I wouldn’t have needed to steal her away like I did in the first place. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “But also maybe yes? I got more information from the person who sort of set me on this ‘truth-seeking’ journey in the first place, but I’m not sure what to do with it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z This was the reason I had become a lawyer in the first place, and my work often made me feel I had made the right decision. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He never sent it to me in the first place. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Well, why did you put it there in the first place, then?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry knew she was deeply interested in the Gryffindor team’s prospects; it had been she, after all, who’d suggested him as Seeker in the first place. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “But then—my foolishness in insulting him in the first place.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Why am I drinking in the first place?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z That was why I had not gone with him and Frank in the first place. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Even if we put aside the lie—which I don't think we should—there's still the matter of this relationship, which you never wanted in the first place. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Before that wight died, he told us why they’ve been abducting so many ymbrynes. They’re going to force them to re-create the reaction that made the hollows in the first place—only bigger. Much bigger.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Now I’m back to the point that prompted me to keep a diary in the first place: I don’t have a friend. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Or else I had to learn how to stand far enough inland that it would never approach me in the first place. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z If this is the case, then we have a pretty good clue as to why her students are in need of inflated grades in the first place: they have a bad teacher. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “They wouldn’t have needed to if it wasn’t destroyed in the first place.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Finally, the girl remarked to the other, “Why do you suppose she sold Angel in the first place? Why didn’t she just donate it to the museum?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish Auggie Pullman had never come to Beecher Prep in the first place! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Whatever made them mark our door in the first place has apparently stuck around. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z But Darwin kept returning to the mechanism of heredity: What had made the long-necked antelope emerge in the first place? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Virgil wasn’t great with numbers in the first place, and he certainly wasn’t great at telling time, with or without a clock. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Going without food wasn’t too hard when there was so little to go around in the first place. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t remember why I came here in the first place. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Listening to him, I’m always reminded of why I started playing cello in the first place—that there is something so human and expressive about it. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z On a good day, you had maybe an hour and a half, which was hardly worth the trouble in the first place. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “What led you to investigate the defendant in the first place? Why did you think to look around his boat and to notice something like a new mooring line?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He tried talking to me at school this morning, but I pushed him away because he’s the reason I’m in this mess in the first place. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z And if you or Hannah have a problem with that, you can just take it up with Victoria, who invited me in the first place and whose parents own the freaking cabin. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A doctor stopped Mother and asked why she’d been at the birth in the first place. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She knows what it may mean, and she still feels responsible for having encouraged me in the first place. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And if he was, what was he doing with those Careers in the first place? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z But then a less arrogant individual than Tycho would still have had his nose intact and might never have become such a great astronomer in the first place. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I need to know how many rules you can break before you’re thrown out, and what those rules even are in the first place. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Or she forgot it’s in her phone in the first place. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z |
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