That is actually the answer I should have given you in the first place.

First, because the wound was given in the place of your true strength, as an effort to take you out.

Who the hell gave it to him in the first place?

And part of the debate is over what gave rise to black English in the first place.

After all, the magic had been given to her in the first place, hadn't it?

I was the one gave it to Armitage in the first place.

Clinton should never have been given such a position in the first place.

I recognize her as the girl who gave it to me in the first place.

"He was the one who gave us away in the first place," Joe objected.

Not that his opaque brown eyes gave anything away in the first place.