Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | Course , what you 've got to think of , Conservatives are the one that started it in the first place . |
| 3 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 4 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 5 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 6 | And then as he turned and walked away he took the blackjack , which had come out of his pocket in the same handful , and tossed it into the first unblocked drain that he saw . |
| 7 | With a quick reflex action he caught the tompaw , a short stout wooden handle with a steel claw set in the end , and thumped it into the first deal of the day . |
| 8 | The Scots , who led 12-3 overnight , needed only one more point to secure overall victory and clinched it in the first match to finish yesterday when Jim Muir beat Mike Marsden in straight sets . |