Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 2 | and if it 's a tight one , and you 're going round it in first , really tight one , then what you need to be doing really is slipping the clutch |
| 3 | First , and rather obviously , subjects unfamiliar with a rather complex dynamic decision problem under risk have difficulty in coping with it on first acquaintance . |
| 4 | I took it , I , he said well try it and we went round it in first and I went and it went rrah |
| 5 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |