Example sentences of "it first " in BNC.
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| 1 | For cabinet work , however , you will need to fit it first , and engrave it in situ . |
| 2 | My main reservation about the book , which is more evident to me now than when it first appeared , is that Lodge has too direct and univocal an understanding of the elusive concept of ‘ literature ’ . |
| 3 | His problem will be that Mrs Thatcher might decide to do it first , and then she will garner the votes . |
| 4 | This is tougher than it first looks as it does not cover news , sport , game-shows or teletext services . |
| 5 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |
| 6 | The censor at the moment happens to be the Medical Officer attached to Brigade H.Q How can one possibly write a love letter to someone when someone else reads it first , and draws at random a blue pencil through your choicest lines ? |
| 7 | Rather , it first , made full divorce somewhat easier and cheaper , opening it up to the upper middle class , second , made judicial separation more expensive and more rare ; and third , continued to deny the poor access to either . |
| 8 | Normally we heat it first and add biscuit so that the dogs have a warm , mixed meal , but tonight Odd-Knut is considering giving it to them frozen to save time . |
| 9 | A carefully targeted marketing plan ensured Balbirnie House an occupancy rate of over 50% during it first 18 months of business . |
| 10 | We opt for The Baker 's Wife at the Phoenix and all vote it a definite winner , and I wonder again at the jaundiced palate of critics who gave it a fair old drubbing when it first trotted out . |
| 11 | On subsequent journeys I would always try to be the first to see it and shout , ‘ There it is , I saw it first ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I should have unloaded it first , ’ Catherine Crane said , apologetically , ‘ but I just could n't move in any direction with it where it was . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He cleaned it first , then , before dumping it , sir . |
| 14 | This brief in our series on the modern classics of economics looks at a paper that is still as controversial as when it first appeared — and suddenly much more relevant to the debate on economic policy . |
| 15 | Take-up on that scale could make Mr Major 's first budget a lot more memorable than it first appeared . |
| 16 | Bella got it first . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've got to prove it first , have n't we ? ’ he continued . |
| 18 | And that may not be as bad as it first sounds . |
| 19 | Dismissed as a novelty ever since it first began , rap has not only survived but has provided us with endless pleasures and variations . |
| 20 | Dismissed as a novelty when it first appeared on record over a decade ago , rap has proved itself remarkably durable . |
| 21 | If you intend using a wheelbarrow measure it first . |
| 22 | And , if by some misfortune , he or she miscalculates and dares to put on even a tiny amount of excess fat , this is immediately dieted off within a week of it first appearing . |
| 23 | Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach ( Hamlyn , 1978 ) was revolutionary when it first came out , with its detailed look at what it means to be fat and thin in our society , and to each of us individually . |
| 24 | It first appeared in England in April 1852 and was not a success despite good reviews in trade journals . |
| 25 | I shall tell Mr Harker about this when I next see him and I shall make sure that Mr Thacker knows about it first thing tomorrow ! ’ |
| 26 | One of the latter is a book that has become a favourite in the two years since it first appeared in hardback form . |
| 27 | But it has taken the extraordinary campaign of the Natural Law Party to bring home the sheer size and wealth of the movement , 25 years after it first made headlines . |
| 28 | Nationally , the total is up 1,056,000 on April , 1990 , when it first started expanding . |
| 29 | In ecological terms crofting agriculture , as I came to know it first , was complete , cyclical and self-renewing . |
| 30 | ‘ But you have to make them want it first . |