Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 2 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 4 | The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated . |
| 5 | Order it correctly in the first place . |
| 6 | The resident male who was displaced then comes back and looks after all the eggs , including those of the pirate and the reason he does it presumably in the first place he ca n't distinguish which eggs he 's fertilized and those fertilized by the pirate and secondly , he knows he 's fertilized some of the eggs and therefore it pays him to stay and look after all of them . |
| 7 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |