Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] in the first " 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 | But crisis — particularly one which puts the USSR 's world position at risk — is something that the West should wish to avoid in the first place . |
| 5 | Trainee consultants need to appreciate that the procedure of informing an interested school of the different structures that have been found to work well in different settings , and of inviting the school to decide which they might wish to develop in the first instance , is in itself an important part of preparing a supportive climate . |
| 6 | And I think originally it may have run in the first year both at easter and at August . |
| 7 | Information which places guilt for the patient 's illness on the family might only serve to reinforce their overprotective and critical communication styles , which may have arisen in the first place for just this reason . |
| 8 | Astronomical evidence suggests that this may have occurred in the first half of the year 5 BC . |
| 9 | In the early days the novelty must have outweighed the discomfort , or no one would have travelled in the first charabancs . |
| 10 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe if you 'd accepted my offer of an air ticket to all the other Grands Prix I would have come in the first six there , too . ’ |
| 12 | It does not immediately cure all known cancers — something that no one with a modicum of medical knowledge would have expected in the first place given the different causes and the versatility of cancer — nor is it without undesirable side effects . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 2 Answer the questions that the journalist will need to ask in the first paragraph of the release and develop the various points in order of importance . |
| 15 | Yeah but then yo er in a party situation you could probably do that in the first minutes could n't you , I would have thought everybody in th room will have spoken in the first five minutes would n't they ? |