Example sentences of "[verb] do [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 3 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 4 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 5 | UTILITY — A small program which will do a single , simple job ; often performing a function that Windows ought to have done in the first place . |
| 6 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 7 | It 's just the same as what we 've done in the first one , and we 're |
| 8 | As he had done in the first round , he reached the green and they got their par . |
| 9 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |
| 10 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |
| 11 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |