Example sentences of "should have [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
| 2 | I should have complained about the first case , but I was inexperienced then . |
| 3 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 4 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 5 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 6 | The view of the American Museum of Natural History , led by the late Don Rosen , is that the dipnois should have evolved into the first tetrapods , or four-legged land-based animals . |
| 7 | He should have known from the first that the chasm which lay between them would not be so easy to cross . |