Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that it was profoundly a work of synthesis was obviously much less important at first , and may even seem not very important now , as one settles down to enjoy it for the first or umpteenth time . |
| 2 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 3 | ‘ I only use it as a last resort , when the dog is impeding my progress . |
| 4 | ‘ But now I only use it as a last resort . ’ |
| 5 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 6 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 7 | Because , as I say , we 've got recycling credits on our side , we 've got the fact that we 've got this outlet in Exmouth which will take the paper , and that 's why we 're looking at producing this workshop area , so that a lot of this stuff that goes to landfill , I 'm talking about , fridges , tables , whichever else that can be repaired and reused er , I know this is only on a very small scale , but one of the things that I think is very important with is that we 're not purely a recycling centre , we also want to set an education project , to raise people 's awareness of what yo yet waste production is n't about recycling , it 's about not producing it in the first place , |
| 8 | So just watch it after the first dose that evening , if you g Especially if you get out of bed to have a wee . |
| 9 | The adoral shields are large , slightly convex and situated totally proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 10 | The adoral shields are nearly rectangular and situated almost entirely proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 11 | They lie proximal to the oral shield and not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 12 | The adoral shields are large and are restricted to the proximal sides of the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 13 | The adoral shields are short , slightly curved and situated proximal to the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 14 | The adoral shields are slightly convex occupy a large portion of the jaw proximal to the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 15 | The adoral shields are curved and situated proximal to the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 16 | The adoral shields are large , not particularly wing-like , restricted to the proximal sides of the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 17 | The adoral shields are convex , restricted to the proximal sides of the oral shield and not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 18 | The adoral shields are small slightly convex but not particularly wing-like , and restricted to the proximal edges of the oral shield , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 19 | The adoral shields are approximately triangular and restricted to the proximal sides of oral shields , not separating it from the first lateral arm plate ; they often do not meet in the midline proximal to the oral shields . |
| 20 | ‘ I wanted to prepare them for it , not leave it to the last two weeks with people asking what was happening . |
| 21 | Not too long — I generally leave it to the last minute . |
| 22 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 23 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 24 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 27 | council to , if you could like lump it with the next year 's . |
| 28 | It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division . |
| 29 | Certain spiders also use it as a last resort . |
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