Example sentences of "you [verb] it [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team .
2 to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time .
3 One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed .
4 Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place
5 I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’
6 Well you answered it in the first , in the first answer that they got jobs they were employed er the , the rural labourers were able to , to get employment in urban areas er where wages were slightly above those wages that they could reasonably expect in agriculture and because they were actually productive making goods and services they helped the development process .
7 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 .
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