Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 2 | Ludo notices it for the first time , and asks what he can do for me . |
| 3 | This does not mean that the applicant can not let the house , but if she sells it , or simply uses it as a second home , she may have to pay back the whole or part of the grant with interest . |
| 4 | Seaforth also tops the line 's efficiency league , ahead of European ports of call , and ACL uses it as the first and last calling point to take advantage of the growing links with the Mediterranean , Northern Europe , the Baltic States and Ireland . |
| 5 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 6 | The first person puts the banana on their feet and passes it to the next . |
| 7 | Leaving aside the Prologue and the short Un-accompanied duet for Peter and Ellen which links it to the first act proper , each of the three acts is prefaced by an orchestral " interlude " , and there are three more of these interludes separating the scenes within the acts . |
| 8 | This is the earliest known picture of the house , and shows it in the first half of the nineteenth century before the ground level at the front of the building was raised |
| 9 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 10 | The cobbler then slits the three-dimensional pattern down the heel , removes it from the last and cuts away excess material . |
| 11 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 12 | The Formula One world champion test drives it for the first time in Phoenix on January 4 and will find his sleek , high-speed T93 series chassis also longer , bigger , heavier and cheaper than any previous IndyCar or championship-winning Canon Williams Renault FW14 . |
| 13 | If inserting pushes a word into the invisible right-hand margin , the wordwrap feature automatically moves it to the next line . |
| 14 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |
| 15 | The strange fragrance was stronger now , coming over the top of the rise in a wave of scent that struck him powerfully — as the scent of orange-blossom in the Mediterranean strikes a traveller who smells it for the first time . |
| 16 | The implication that they are determined by other factors and of slight consequence occurs again and again ; but Braudel can never bring himself to say it straight out , and indeed undercuts it in the third part of La Méditerranée where , for example , the defeat of Charles V and the Venetians by the Turks in 1538 is said to have had consequences which lasted over a third of a century . |
| 17 | North Tyneside is a ‘ programme authority ’ for the purposes of urban programming , which puts it in the second highest division of local authorities for central assistance , which is inner-city related . |
| 18 | If it sells it to the Third World , it destroys local economies . |