Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] it [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | I should n't have took it in the first place . |
| 5 | It was also one of the most economical , which was why Kolchinsky would have purchased it in the first place . |
| 6 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |