I made it first place vs I made first place

Some examples from the web:

• Chrome usage typically rises on weekends and falls on working days, but this is the first time the browser has made it to first place, StatCounter said.
• I didn't tattle about the flag, but you shouldn't have made it in the first place.
• BullGuard Internet Security even made it to first place in the Internet Security test of this year.
• This is absurd of course, because these posts in local delegations are needed above all else so that reforms can be made in the first place.
• Why they even... made us in the first place.
• I still don't get why the Warners had a man-made stone in the first place.
• Why they... why they even made us in the first place.
• Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I can understand the rapporteur's dissatisfaction at the rejection of these amendments which are only made necessary in the first place because of a new report from the Council.
• Which cities have been the top business travel destinations in 2012? The final chart has been recently published by, which summed the annual business travellers' flows up. Singapore made it to the first place, and was officially awarded Business City 2012.
• Brooke, if your mom hadn't made the choices that she made in the first place, she wouldn't be going to prison, and you wouldn't have to sell your company.
• Your contribution to the re-evangelization of society will be made in the first place by personal witness to the indwelling Spirit and by showing forth his presence through works of holiness and solidarity.
• The resources made available cannot be allowed to simply get caught up in the administrative machinery instead of finding their way to the people for whom they are made available in the first place.
• And, conversely, who can check that the information which our children, for example, sit and lap up from the Internet should be made public in the first place?
• The choice of the partners has been made in the first place thanks to the institutional relationship that the Province of Ravenna territory (the one which Cervia "belongs to") and some of the East Adriatic Partners have built in the previous years.
• whereas the European film industry is currently fragmented along national and linguistic borders, and whereas films are in the first place made for and consumed by the local audience of the country of origin;
• But what if we never made enemies in the first place? Wouldn't that be better?
• They know these triggers should never have made it to Libya in the first place.
• If you just made it clear in the first place that she has no choice...
• Maybe consider who made it possible For you to write this play in the first place.
• Together with Michael "Mi3" Brother, our remixes made it to 1, although it should only be one first place.

Some examples from the web:

• This is absurd of course, because these posts in local delegations are needed above all else so that reforms can be made in the first place.
• Why they even... made us in the first place.
• I still don't get why the Warners had a man-made stone in the first place.
• Chrome usage typically rises on weekends and falls on working days, but this is the first time the browser has made it to first place, StatCounter said.
• Why they... why they even made us in the first place.
• Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I can understand the rapporteur's dissatisfaction at the rejection of these amendments which are only made necessary in the first place because of a new report from the Council.
• I didn't tattle about the flag, but you shouldn't have made it in the first place.
• Brooke, if your mom hadn't made the choices that she made in the first place, she wouldn't be going to prison, and you wouldn't have to sell your company.
• BullGuard Internet Security even made it to first place in the Internet Security test of this year.
• Your contribution to the re-evangelization of society will be made in the first place by personal witness to the indwelling Spirit and by showing forth his presence through works of holiness and solidarity.
• The resources made available cannot be allowed to simply get caught up in the administrative machinery instead of finding their way to the people for whom they are made available in the first place.
• And, conversely, who can check that the information which our children, for example, sit and lap up from the Internet should be made public in the first place?
• The choice of the partners has been made in the first place thanks to the institutional relationship that the Province of Ravenna territory (the one which Cervia "belongs to") and some of the East Adriatic Partners have built in the previous years.
• whereas the European film industry is currently fragmented along national and linguistic borders, and whereas films are in the first place made for and consumed by the local audience of the country of origin;
• But what if we never made enemies in the first place? Wouldn't that be better?
• Which cities have been the top business travel destinations in 2012? The final chart has been recently published by, which summed the annual business travellers' flows up. Singapore made it to the first place, and was officially awarded Business City 2012.
• I would not have been on board for all this in the first place if I ever were to break the promise I made you.
• Considering I made them for you in the first place, your gesturing's a little hollow.
• But I think the biggest mistake I made was thinking I could go to that dance in the first place like a normal person.
• I've said I made a mistake bringing sunil up in the first place.