Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |
| 2 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
| 4 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 5 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 6 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 7 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 10 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 11 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
| 12 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 13 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
| 14 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 15 | ‘ I closed it after the first year . |
| 16 | He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years . |
| 17 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
| 20 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 21 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 22 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time . |
| 25 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 26 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 27 | Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place |
| 28 | The strange fragrance was stronger now , coming over the top of the rise in a wave of scent that struck him powerfully — as the scent of orange-blossom in the Mediterranean strikes a traveller who smells it for the first time . |
| 29 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | Well you answered it in the first , in the first answer that they got jobs they were employed er the , the rural labourers were able to , to get employment in urban areas er where wages were slightly above those wages that they could reasonably expect in agriculture and because they were actually productive making goods and services they helped the development process . |