Example sentences of "it [adv] for the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 2 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
| 7 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 8 | Have it there for the first month or something . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The house is all straight and you 're tired and then the kids come home from school and upset the house again , so you remake it again for the next day . |