"The key is to avoid thinking about it in the first place."

"What made you think of it in the first place?"

It was bad enough that he did not think much of her in the first place.

Even if some would believe it, they'd have no reason to think of him in the first place.

The old Maggie would not have even thought about it in the first place.

He should have thought of it in the first place.

"I think in the first place that Edward would never allow it."

I were wrong even to think of it in the first place, Mama.

Too bad he hadn't thought of it in the first place.

I am thinking in the very first place of Palestine.