Example sentences of "it [adv] [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle . |
| 2 | The resident male who was displaced then comes back and looks after all the eggs , including those of the pirate and the reason he does it presumably in the first place he ca n't distinguish which eggs he 's fertilized and those fertilized by the pirate and secondly , he knows he 's fertilized some of the eggs and therefore it pays him to stay and look after all of them . |
| 3 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 4 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 5 | But you can get it in For the first time at any age . |
| 6 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 7 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 8 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | Do n't bring it over to the first character , leave it exactly where it is . |
| 10 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 12 | Seeing it yesterday for the first time , she had reflected that great tact would have to be employed for two women to share quarters this size . |
| 13 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 14 | But if your item weighs a half a kilo , we 'll round it up to the first kilo so that 's any valid for fifteen pounds . |
| 15 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 16 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 17 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 18 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 19 | When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the |
| 20 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
| 21 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 22 | For the Sunday the pros would be on their own , battling it out for the first prize of £500,000 . |
| 23 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |
| 24 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 25 | Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant . |
| 26 | Order it correctly in the first place . |
| 27 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |
| 28 | When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on . |
| 29 | Have it there for the first month or something . |
| 30 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |