Example sentences of "it [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key is to start with something simple ; 95 per cent of the decisions you make are unconscious — for example , when you drive a car you never really think about putting it into first or second gear . |
| 2 | Pushing it into first , she was just about to let off the handbrake when he opened the passenger door and awkwardly lowered his length into the small car . |
| 3 | Shoving it in , shoving it into first , bring the clutch up quickly and the car goes weer and virtually stops |
| 4 | Put it into first gear and he said , and the light went out , he said oh yes that 's fine . |
| 5 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 6 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 7 | But a more historic example has recently emerged from a conservation programme to preserve it in first class static display condition for many years to come , this is Mk 1 Z2033/G–ASTL of the Skyfame Collection owned by the Imperial War Museum ( IWM ) and part of the collection of the historic aircraft at Duxford . |
| 8 | ‘ Good point , but you call it in first . ’ |
| 9 | I watched it in first and I went |
| 10 | and if it 's a tight one , and you 're going round it in first , really tight one , then what you need to be doing really is slipping the clutch |
| 11 | I took it , I , he said well try it and we went round it in first and I went and it went rrah |
| 12 | I was taught to do it in first and use the accelerator . |
| 13 | Any Member feeling himself or herself , aggrieved in any way in connection with the Society , shall bring his or her complaint to the Secretary , who will bring it before first meeting . |
| 14 | First , and rather obviously , subjects unfamiliar with a rather complex dynamic decision problem under risk have difficulty in coping with it on first acquaintance . |
| 15 | If it is readily intelligible so much the better ; but it is far more important that it should yield its meaning accurately than that it should yield it on first reading , and the Legal draftsman can not afford to give much attention , if any , to euphony or literary elegance … . |
| 16 | Consequently I was very interested to read the article ‘ Tower of Babel ’ by Tania V. Guha ( May/June 1992 ) since I realised that I could now without too much struggle understand most of it , or perhaps I should more truthfully say about 80 per cent of it on first reading . |
| 17 | If it is readily intelligible , so much the better ; but it is far more important that it should yield its meaning accurately than that it should yield it on first reading , and legal draftsmen can not afford to give much attention , if any , to euphony or literary elegance . |
| 18 | It was cancer of the bowel , though the doctors were slow or unwilling to diagnose it at first . |
| 19 | Because the different zones of the sea are so interlinked — many creatures making use of several in the course of their lives — the ocean environment is far more vulnerable than it at first appears . |
| 20 | In view of the overwhelming Palestinian demographic preponderance , this arrangement was a good deal less equitable than it at first seems . |
| 21 | A more fundamental difficulty with the new examination is contained in the very principle that made it at first sight so attractive — its applicability to the full ability range . |
| 22 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 23 | Her face was straight as she looked at him and she spoke the truth when she answered , ‘ I liked it at first ; it was like a holiday after school , but not so of late . ’ |
| 24 | He had not believed it at first , but now he was not so sure . |
| 25 | I could n't believe it at first that the problem was so simple ; in fact I walked out of that lesson without any pain at all … the first time for twenty months . |
| 26 | It is so easy to overdo it at first so please be gentle with yourself . |
| 27 | I could n't believe it at first : I 'd been so careful . |
| 28 | However , a combination of the limestone subsoil and the profusion of rivers , canals , lakes and reservoirs reduces Champagne 's water requirement ( due to low evaporation ) , making 662 millimetres of rainfall relatively heavier than it at first appears . |
| 29 | ‘ Could n't help it at first , but we 've become friends . |
| 30 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |