Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] it [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 2 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 3 | The examination he looks upon as completely separate ; he will attend to it at the last possible moment . |
| 4 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 5 | Even if it may be some time before they are commercially acceptable , pioneer work is essential if our planet is to feed the teeming millions of people who will live on it by the twenty-first century . |