Why ever had she asked such a question in the first place?

And anyway, he didn't know the right questions to ask in the first place.

It's why I asked you here today in the first place.

But of course not every question was asked in the first place.

I should have asked him for it in the first place.

Nor is it always good taste to ask where the family got the land and money in the first place.

Of course, that question was not seriously asked in the first place.

If you had asked me in the first place, I would have stayed.

We should have just asked her in the first place.

This was obviously the question she had really wanted to ask in the first place.