Example sentences of "[prep] it the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
| 2 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 3 | I did n't think much of it the first time . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing ever comes of it the first time , anyway , ’ Mandy assured her . |
| 5 | From time to time a little breeze , trapped in the courtyard , eddied and gusted in their direction , bringing with it the first hint of the sweet smell of decay . |
| 6 | I was lucky enough not to be court martialled , quite apart from getting away with it the first night . |
| 7 | I got right into it the first couple of series . |
| 8 | I remember waking with my face in it the first whole night we spent together . |
| 9 | As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism . |
| 10 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 11 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I paid far too much for it the first time , so I 've put a really low reserve on it now . |
| 13 | A passageway crossed left and right before her ; a little way along the right-hand corridor she could see a wide opening in the wall , and through it the first few steps of a wide staircase leading upwards . |