You never wanted to be joined in the first place.

Soon she would fly there to join him, in the new place.

That was how he had talked most of them into joining the mission in the first place.

It was a small miracle they'd got him to join them in the first place.

Remember, some of us never even wanted to be joined in the first place.

They might even forget why we bothered to join in the first place.

I go to join the rest of my kind, in the place where shadows fall.

That is one of the reasons we joined the Reserves in the first place.

It had reminded him of why he'd joined the police in the first place.

You've forgotten why you joined the cause in the first place.