Example sentences of "do [pron] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately I can do nothing about the first two but it is my responsibility to protect your salary so that your wife and family are looked after . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 3 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 4 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 5 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 9 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 10 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Labs — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 11 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 12 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | How do you in the first place ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
| 18 | And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go . |