Listening to you in the first place was stupid.

I never should have listened in the first place.

I'm ashamed I listened to them in the first place.

"The thing I like most is that they listened to the students in the first place, and did what the students asked."

Of course, there's no need to back away if you don't stop to listen in the first place.

And how do you know She was listening in the first place?

How do you get to be popular without people taking a chance and listening to you in the first place?

If you had listened to me in the first place!

And you admit that your people decided on war before they listened to his account in the first place?

Although I wish you could have simply listened to me in the first place.