Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I would discuss it with you first . ’ |
| 2 | Although I had no idea then what species of bird it was , the picture was firmly fixed in my mind ; years later I instantly recognised it in my first ornithological guide , P. A. D. Hollom 's The Popular Handbook of British Birds . |
| 3 | Most of the Elizabethan and Jacobean amateurs who collected his music made copies of parts or all of it , and Byrd himself selected it for his first ( 1589 ) book of cantiones sacrae , along with pieces of the stature of ‘ Ne irascaris ’ , ‘ Tristitia et anxietas ’ , ‘ O quam gloriosum ’ and ‘ Vigilate ’ . |
| 4 | I did choose it in my first book , The Selfish Gene , so I thought that here I would fly a kite for a somewhat less-fashionable theory ( although it recently has started gaining ground ) , which seems to me to have at least a sporting chance of being right . |
| 5 | I had missed it on its first appearance , around 1974 , but considering the excellent standards of Baudo 's other Honegger recordings for the same label , it would be a mistake to overlook it entirely . |
| 6 | He became aware of the excessive beating of his heart , and remembered the attendant 's advice not to overdo it on his first visit . |
| 7 | Halvard , I compressed one of the files ok and then mailed it to myself first to see if I was getting everything right . |
| 8 | Steve , I 'm going to give it to you first this time That 's right , yes , that 's good , So you can actually throw away the cover sheet , you , you really do n't need that . |
| 9 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll have it for you first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 11 | If you are n't happy with the service you 're getting from your GP , dentist or optician , then discuss it with them first . |
| 12 | If you are n't happy with the service you 're getting from your GP , dentist or optician , then discuss it with them first . |
| 13 | Not without hearing it from you first . ’ |
| 14 | Maybe I can make it to my first home game in 15 years ! |
| 15 | Restaurant chain TGI Friday 's is using it for its first UK ad campaign , launched this month . |
| 16 | Because I sold it to him first . |
| 17 | She had meant to walk down to the sea today to greet it on her first Christmas here , her own sea , her own stretch of wild grey winter water . |
| 18 | He did not know why and , in the absence of an obvious explanation , attributed it to his first ever professional encounter with a psychiatrist . |
| 19 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |
| 20 | No , it just said them you will offer it to them , no you 've to offer it to them first because they 've got a waiting list of people wanting |
| 21 | The nearest Jaguar agents were in Vienna , where he had taken it for its first service , but the electronic engine management and monitoring systems were so complex that he wanted them checked over by experts . |