Example sentences of "do [pron] in the [num ord] " 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 | Every time I 've asked him to do anything in the last three days , I ca n't , working out the quiz . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . ’ |
10 | How do you in the first place ? |
11 | 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 . |
12 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
13 | I did it in the sixth form , it 's really hard , it takes ages |
14 | ‘ Yes , we did it in the Fourth . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ Not unless I do it in the next three months , ’ she told him . |
17 | Mr Colman if I might add that re- orientation has brought with it the need to change our pricing strategy and therefore rather than going package by package right through the whole thirty four , we 're actually trying initially on the engines to go in one bang to price everything on the engines and do it in the next few months . |
18 | 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 . |