Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 2 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 3 | Upon wiping away the icy incrustation from the face , the countenance was immediately recollected ; but , the frame appearing lifeless , assistance was procured to convey it to the first house upon the skirts of the village , when , a pulsation being observed , every possible means was instantly adopted to promote his recovery . |
| 4 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 5 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 6 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 7 | I should n't have took it in the first place . |
| 8 | It was also one of the most economical , which was why Kolchinsky would have purchased it in the first place . |
| 9 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 10 | The second player then breathes in and tries to take it off the first until it reaches the player at the end . |
| 11 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 12 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 13 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 14 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 15 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 16 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |
| 17 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |
| 18 | Yes , but I mean , you have to , you not to not know that you have to count it from the first one does n't matter . |