Example sentences of "[vb pp] it first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have reported it first , but I thought I could always plead urgency if I was disciplined again , and I could n't take the risk of being denied access . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I should have unloaded it first , ’ Catherine Crane said , apologetically , ‘ but I just could n't move in any direction with it where it was . ’ |
| 3 | And once again I thought of Prospero ; even if he had not said it first , I should have thought of it then . |
| 4 | For some reason , Belgion had resented this observation , not because he thought it untrue but because he claimed to have said it first . |
| 5 | As they walked inside , arm in arm , she said huskily , ‘ Darling , what would you have done if I had n't said it first ? ’ |
| 6 | She could see nothing unless he had seen it first . |
| 7 | Doctor seen it first , she thought I had pulled a hair and it was kind of septic |
| 8 | An air of antiquity hung over that pathway , which , followed to its logical end , ran down to the river , as if the ancient Britons had used it first and it would go on being used even after the Bomb fell . |
| 9 | She would have smelt it first — long before the old girl downstairs : she did n't smell it till we went in to get her . ’ |
| 10 | Possibly de Moivre was one of Bayes 's teachers , so that Bayes may have learned of the problem directly from him , although he may equally have encountered it first in his writings or in the Observations on Man , His Frame , His Duty , And His Expectations ( 1749 ) by David Hartley [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | Fill this with a small amount of cat litter , having lined it first with newspaper . |
| 12 | If only you had read it first — as at least six people did without realising . |
| 13 | er I 'm er read it first |