Example sentences of "do [det] in the [num ord] [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 | My local primary has , in fact , at least done that in the last year , and we have n't opted out , and secondly you will remember the article in the Guardian from thirteenth of November — thirteenth of November last year — Hull Grammar School , which was one of the first ones that went independent erm have now applied for an administration order which gives them breathing space before winding up petitions can be launched . |
3 | 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 ? |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ May I ask why you did n't do that in the first place ? ’ |
6 | I could n't understand why you did n't do that in the first place . |
7 | They did n't do much in the first game and we 're unbeaten away . ’ |
8 | ‘ It never occurred to me not to do that in the first place , ’ she said . |
9 | We attempt to do this in the next chapter , but before embarking on this task we must note some of the criticisms which have been made about the Braverman thesis and its implications . |
10 | Eric Brown then went and did that in the third round , but at that stage I thought it was going to be between Peter , Christy and Dave . |
11 | Too many people did that in the last recession and ended up with fancy new furniture in the living room , photos of an expensive holiday abroad , a few remains of once fashionable clothes and masses of debts . |
12 | After the fierce arguments of the previous decade it was necessary for my Group to explain its own rationale , and we did this in the second chapter of our Report . |