Example sentences of "do [prep] the [num ord] place " 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 | Perhaps radio is now fitted inside the crash helmets , I never understood why this could not have been done in the first place , along the lines of the radios issued to policemen or the earphones that , thank God , are popular with those who can not live without constant noise . |
| 3 | Who wanted the job done in the first place ? ’ |
| 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 | 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 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 7 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to do what I came here to do in the first place . |
| 9 | Tell me , it 's , it 's probably quite an expensive thing to do in the first place without having to , to , to bring home , home some money for charity in the end , how have you gone about doing it ? |
| 10 | And something like two million people have got to stop doing jobs they should never have been doing in the first place , like er polluting the rivers and the soil and the air , and spying on each other and contributing to the overmanning that there is in East Germany . |
| 11 | ‘ Although you should n't need to hear it , and you should never have believed what you did in the first place … |