Example sentences of "it [adv] in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( 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 . |
| 3 | Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth 's turn to save his side . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | Leaving , Nicholas crashed the door open and then , remembering , closed it soundlessly in the last inch of its movement . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They always , they always lag as you know , our , our , we always underspend capital in the first half against what our division think they 're gon na do and they always think they 're gon na catch it up in the second half , they never do but erm , it wo n't be , you know , it wo n't be materially different . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 17 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |
| 18 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Insert needle again in the lower stitch and bring it out in the next stitch to the left ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 21 | Order it correctly in the first place . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | Theyll have to give us the trophy for keeps if we win it again in the next quarter century . |
| 28 | As it is the structure you are concentrating on , you get it again in the next utterance . |