Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] the first [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 | Thought you were so damn smart getting it in the first place , and drink has blurred you so much you 've blown it . |
| 10 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 11 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 12 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Revisiting it for the first time , he recalls his high hopes when an angel with marketing skills appeared . |
| 16 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 17 | Bursting a good big dam , or even just letting it overflow , is almost as satisfying as planning and building it in the first place . |
| 18 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 19 | He moved round and joined them and stared intently at the portrait as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 22 | Sam looked at the revolver as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 23 | Charles found he was watching much of the play as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 24 | He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years . |
| 25 | If the patina chemical is too strong , dilute with a little water and , if using it for the first time , do a test on a sample piece of copper . |
| 26 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 27 | Because , as I say , we 've got recycling credits on our side , we 've got the fact that we 've got this outlet in Exmouth which will take the paper , and that 's why we 're looking at producing this workshop area , so that a lot of this stuff that goes to landfill , I 'm talking about , fridges , tables , whichever else that can be repaired and reused er , I know this is only on a very small scale , but one of the things that I think is very important with is that we 're not purely a recycling centre , we also want to set an education project , to raise people 's awareness of what yo yet waste production is n't about recycling , it 's about not producing it in the first place , |
| 28 | There was a big surge of local optimism when Martin Crowe won what appeared to be a very important toss — not that winning it in the first Test had done NZ much good . |
| 29 | The precautionary principle suggests that , as the future damage done by pollution is often more costly than the extra expense of avoiding it in the first place and in any case it is often unacceptable , even if a money cost ca n't be put on it , then prevention is better than cure . |
| 30 | He touched a lump of rotting offal and , scooping it up , throwing it at the first assassin now tripping towards him . |