Example sentences of "do it in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place .
2 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 .
3 they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place
4 Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ?
5 Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place .
6 Why bother to do it in the first place ?
7 I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place .
8 We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’
9 I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago .
10 In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place .
11 I did it in the sixth form , it 's really hard , it takes ages
12 Booth did it in the last minute , slipping the ball home after Lee Richardson , an outstanding performer in the Aberdeen midfield , had struck the post with a clever shot made possible when Rhodes miskicked .
13 And yet another client of mine who 's a teacher , she said oh yeah she said it 's lovely , she said I suppose I ought to do the marking and all that at the beginning she said but I leave it , she said , and I sometimes do it in the last week .
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