Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap .
2 Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ .
3 He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr .
4 But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem .
5 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 !
6 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 :
7 The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time .
8 ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’
9 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 .
10 Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 .
11 this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out
12 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 .
13 Course , what you 've got to think of , Conservatives are the one that started it in the first place .
14 Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place
15 His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place .
16 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 .
17 It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but
18 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 .
19 That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’
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 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 .
22 I should n't have took it in the first place .
23 My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’
24 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 .
25 It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division .
26 Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on .
27 In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team .
28 Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance .
29 Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression .
30 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 .
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