Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it first " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , it is better to refer at some stage to the primary source of an idea , even if you came across it first in a secondary source . |
| 2 | It was Barney who returned to it first , dribbling cream into his coffee and watching it swirl into a spiral on the surface . |
| 3 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 4 | Of course , you are likely to get some people who say that they thought of it first . |
| 5 | Look who thought of it first |
| 6 | You know : ‘ I thought of it first . ’ |
| 7 | She thought of it first when she spent her two nights on the Embankment , which was littered as soon as dark fell with sad , wild men and women stuffing bread into their mouths out of brown paper bags or staring at the barges on the river . |
| 8 | Nick had a wart and he spat on it first thing every morning and by the end of the week it was gone . ’ |
| 9 | I warmed to it first of all because , like the Eggle New York elsewhere in this issue , it obviously is n't trying to be anything else ; it can stand on its own merits without any need for the usual identikit comparisons . |