Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 2 | So learning that a particular symbol on a computer keyboard , situated in a particular room , delivers a banana from a feeder , is really the same kind of mental activity as recognizing the shape of a banana plant in a forest and remembering where to find it again the next day . |
| 3 | If a weaving yarn is thick and slubby , consider weaving it only every third row . |
| 4 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 5 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 6 | Well that 's right , give it away the first part of the question |
| 7 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 8 | Anyway , it was good fun , so we did it again the next year . |
| 9 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 10 | As soon as the men had taken it away the next morning , she re-entered the house , very cautiously to avoid Troy , but her husband had gone out very early and did not return . |
| 11 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
| 12 | This pulsar is a compact neutron star , which rotates 642 times every second , and the detection makes it only the third pulsar known to emit light . |
| 13 | ‘ Why could n't you say it quietly the first time ? |