Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it [prep] the 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 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
17 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
18 | to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place |
22 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
23 | 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 . |
24 | In fact , as she considered it for the first time , she wondered how any of them had survived to tell the tale . |
25 | And because this phrase has been much abused and misunderstood , it may be useful at this point to refer back to Erikson , to whom we owe it in the first place . |
26 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
27 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
28 | They see it as the first stage in widening contacts with Western Europe . |
29 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
30 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |