Example sentences of "[verb] do [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 2 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 3 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 4 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 5 | UTILITY — A small program which will do a single , simple job ; often performing a function that Windows ought to have done in the first place . |
| 6 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 7 | As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par . |
| 8 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |