Example sentences of "do [det] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ He should have done that in the first place , and I should have thought about what I was doing instead of just floating along with whatever he put to me . |
2 | 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 ? |
3 | Okay so we could do that in the first place we could say one pizza there well we 've got two pizzas but we 'll let's just concentrate on one , share it between six people . |
4 | ‘ May I ask why you did n't do that in the first place ? ’ |
5 | I could n't understand why you did n't do that in the first place . |
6 | They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’ |
7 | ‘ It never occurred to me not to do that in the first place , ’ she said . |
8 | Just to be safe , turn off the electricity and remove the fuses for the downstairs lighting Circuit and the upstairs ring main while you do this on the first floor — these cables are under the floorboards . |