Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] [prep] the 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 have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 4 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 5 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 6 | The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated . |
| 7 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 8 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 9 | Order it correctly in the first place . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Have it there for the first month or something . |
| 12 | Rickie seized Thessy 's can , pulled open its top , and hurled it messily after the first . |
| 13 | You want to throw it away on the first blonde blue-eyed gold-digger to throw herself across your path . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |