Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |
| 32 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 33 | to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 37 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 38 | The opposition Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) withdrew its 39 delegates indefinitely from the 92-member National Assembly on June 18 , protesting over a " reactionary initiative " to remove two 1990 laws on land redistribution and describing it as the first step of a plan to destroy the achievements of the 1979 revolution . |
| 39 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 40 | Consequently the company is touting it as the first hub to support seamless migration from direct-attached to Token Ring-attached devices . |
| 41 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 42 | The word processor is a very powerful tool for the transfer of thought from brain to paper ; probably most IT teachers would use it as the first introduction to practical computing , at least with literate students . |
| 43 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 44 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
| 45 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 46 | Thought you were so damn smart getting it in the first place , and drink has blurred you so much you 've blown it . |
| 47 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 48 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 49 | Or does n't , you know , exhaustively optimize it on the first pass , all the time . |
| 50 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 51 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 52 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 53 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |
| 54 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 55 | We 'll have it as the first course this evening . ’ |
| 56 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 57 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 58 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . ’ |