Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A tale from Lamb , ’ she muttered , opening it on the first page . |
| 2 | We we 're keeping it under the first weight bracket er for for cost reasons . |
| 3 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 4 | Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place . |
| 5 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 6 | This is normally accompanied by the equally widespread concentration on the factual content or the basic manipulative skills in the material and the associated neglect of the higher-level objectives that were probably the author 's main motivation in developing it in the first place . |
| 7 | The opposition Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) withdrew its 39 delegates indefinitely from the 92-member National Assembly on June 18 , protesting over a " reactionary initiative " to remove two 1990 laws on land redistribution and describing it as the first step of a plan to destroy the achievements of the 1979 revolution . |
| 8 | Consequently the company is touting it as the first hub to support seamless migration from direct-attached to Token Ring-attached devices . |
| 9 | A new sensitivity to the subject is suggested by the series of laws and practices concerning it in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | Thought you were so damn smart getting it in the first place , and drink has blurred you so much you 've blown it . |
| 11 | Lift the stencil carefully , and rinse and dry it before moving it to the next position . |
| 12 | Timeless words of great writers are learned by rote , the individual becoming the book and , in turn , teaching it to the next generation . |
| 13 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 14 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 15 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century . |
| 17 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 18 | And on sex he notes : ‘ The older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time . ’ |
| 19 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
| 20 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 21 | I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place . |
| 22 | We do n't actually want to catch people shoplifting , our aim is to try to put them off doing it in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | Revisiting it for the first time , he recalls his high hopes when an angel with marketing skills appeared . |
| 24 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 25 | The new matrix is symmetric , since both its i , jth and j , ith elements are unity ; moreover , its determinant is -1 , since in moving the jth row to the ith position unc we cross j — i rows ; but the original ith row is now the i + 1th and so in taking it to the jth position we cross j — i — 1 rows . |
| 26 | Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place . |
| 27 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 28 | He moved round and joined them and stared intently at the portrait as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 29 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 30 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |