Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 2 | The Formula One world champion test drives it for the first time in Phoenix on January 4 and will find his sleek , high-speed T93 series chassis also longer , bigger , heavier and cheaper than any previous IndyCar or championship-winning Canon Williams Renault FW14 . |
| 3 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 4 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The distance estimate is important because astronomers use it as the first rung in the distance ladder they extend across the Universe . |
| 7 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 8 | Young couples took their children to it as soon as their legs were long enough ; old people accepted it as the first of their last climbs and many beery pledges were made to the mountain in the Deeside pubs . |
| 9 | A thing of great beauty , it was not unusual to hear sharp intakes of breath as people beheld it for the first time . |
| 10 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 11 | Fortunately , the result of this test proved to be negative but , given the temperance of her lifestyle , her decision to take it in the first place would , at the very least , seem as bizarre as Mr Oliver Reed , the thirst , embarking upon an assertiveness training course . |
| 12 | Two factors affect it in the first four years . |
| 13 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |
| 14 | Ludo notices it for the first time , and asks what he can do for me . |
| 15 | Seaforth also tops the line 's efficiency league , ahead of European ports of call , and ACL uses it as the first and last calling point to take advantage of the growing links with the Mediterranean , Northern Europe , the Baltic States and Ireland . |
| 16 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |