Example sentences of "it [adv] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day during rehearsal of Sea Change , she remembers , when things were getting too complicated , she simply told him to stop and leave it altogether until the next day . |
| 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 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 4 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 5 | ( Nor , it may be added , was it only in the nineteenth century that this stratagem was adopted : it has figured in a good deal of more recent writing as well . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth 's turn to save his side . |
| 8 | Once you 've done it once it actually relatively easy for you to improve it an an and getting it better in the next iteration , erm that is exactly the situation you 've got here . |
| 9 | Self-delusion could easily once again cloud the judgment of the shadow cabinet and Labour could go it alone at the next election , perhaps with the same misplaced confidence in a ‘ safety first ’ stance that will deliver success if the dangers inherent in new initiatives are avoided and new ideas anathemised . |
| 10 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 11 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 12 | Leaving , Nicholas crashed the door open and then , remembering , closed it soundlessly in the last inch of its movement . |
| 13 | But Bosnich almost threw it away in the 38th minute when he fumbled a Jeremy Goss shot and was grateful to see Earl Barrett scramble the ball past the foot of his own post . |
| 14 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 15 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At last he was freed , and gritting his teeth , Jack took the small forearm firmly in his hands and lifted it quickly off the last spike . |
| 18 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
| 19 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 20 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 21 | Order it correctly in the first place . |
| 22 | The style expressed their mood and artistic ideas and they clung to it well into the thirteenth century . |
| 23 | Have it there for the first month or something . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | One expects the interpreter to influence the content , context and spirit of a message as little as possible in keeping with relaying it meaningfully in the second language . |
| 26 | Er simply in terms of the impact , there is a lot more work to be done on that and we would do that in t in developing the scheme and bringing it forward to the next stage , to mitigate the adverse effects er that come about as a result of er construction of new roads . |
| 27 | Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy . |
| 28 | I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home . |
| 29 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 30 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |