Why agree to pay in the first place, if you felt secure enough to attack?

One reason was that he paid little attention to academic debates in the first place.

Don't try to twist this into some person who couldn't afford to pay for insurance in the first place - that's a totally different issue.

People won't buy things if they don't have the money to pay for them in the first place.

The reason being that I value my opinion without having to pay for it in the first place.

How much did they pay in the first place?

Some sleep would do me more good than a meeting I couldn't pay attention to in the first place.

"Do manufacturers really think customers don't know that the price they're getting after the rebate is what they should have paid in the first place?"

It inevitably meant that they had no intention of paying in the first place.

But those people weren't paying much in the first place.