Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A tale from Lamb , ’ she muttered , opening it on the first page . |
| 2 | Ludo notices it for the first time , and asks what he can do for me . |
| 3 | We we 're keeping it under the first weight bracket er for for cost reasons . |
| 4 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 5 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 6 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 7 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 8 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 9 | Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place . |
| 10 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 11 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 12 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 13 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | This is normally accompanied by the equally widespread concentration on the factual content or the basic manipulative skills in the material and the associated neglect of the higher-level objectives that were probably the author 's main motivation in developing it in the first place . |
| 17 | But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem . |
| 18 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 19 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 20 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 21 | This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment . |
| 22 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 23 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |
| 24 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 25 | well I suppose their motto is , she had a C D ten on her driving licence , I suppose she should n't of had it in the first place so if she had n't of had it , he would n't of got it ! |
| 26 | Leaving aside the Prologue and the short Un-accompanied duet for Peter and Ellen which links it to the first act proper , each of the three acts is prefaced by an orchestral " interlude " , and there are three more of these interludes separating the scenes within the acts . |
| 27 | O over this election , what you 've got ta do is every night , is if you 're interested is watch it for the first quarter of an hour of the news every night . |
| 28 | So just watch it after the first dose that evening , if you g Especially if you get out of bed to have a wee . |
| 29 | This is the earliest known picture of the house , and shows it in the first half of the nineteenth century before the ground level at the front of the building was raised |
| 30 | The turnover may have to be greatly reduced in this situation until the young fish are large enough to withstand the water flow , so why employ it in the first place ? |