Example sentences of "do [pron] [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 did everything right in the first set . |
| 5 | 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 . |