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

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1 This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment .
2 O over this election , what you 've got ta do is every night , is if you 're interested is watch it for the first quarter of an hour of the news every night .
3 So just watch it after the first dose that evening , if you g Especially if you get out of bed to have a wee .
4 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 .
5 I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun .
6 to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time .
7 Or does n't , you know , exhaustively optimize it on the first pass , all the time .
8 When he stood Godfather in Fowey , custom demanded that on the way to the christening he should carry the traditional cake and offer it to the first person he saw .
9 And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go .
10 Raise the yarn slightly and take it under the first needle in E position , that is the E position needle nearest to the knitting .
11 Boulestin 's idea was that while you were at it you made — as in a great many of his recipes — enough of this mixture ( he treats smoked cod 's roe and anchovy fillets in precisely the same manner ) for two meals : you serve it as a first course , with toast , for two very differently composed lunches .
12 We regard it as a first step , good though not big , towards equal treatment for all alcoholic products .
13 have it within the first term .
14 They see it as the first stage in widening contacts with Western Europe .
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