Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 2 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 3 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 4 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 5 | The turnover may have to be greatly reduced in this situation until the young fish are large enough to withstand the water flow , so why employ it in the first place ? |
| 6 | Do n't overdo it in the first few days . |
| 7 | The word processor is a very powerful tool for the transfer of thought from brain to paper ; probably most IT teachers would use it as the first introduction to practical computing , at least with literate students . |
| 8 | We 'll have it as the first course this evening . ’ |
| 9 | What they 're saying in effect is that they 're not going to entrust their latest toy to their closest ally because we 'd flog it to the first Russian we came across . ’ |
| 10 | We got him to come and fix it before the first session . |
| 11 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 12 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
| 13 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 14 | Well , er , it 's all according to whether they can afford it in the first instance , secondly , is it gon na be across the board ? |
| 15 | I 'm not complaining about it , but I say I did n't raise it for the first time |
| 16 | Let's close shall we with a song of , of commitment really , it 's number four hundred in the er songs of fellowship and were gon na sing it to the first tune , oh call for us I believe , but let's look at it again . |
| 17 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 18 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |
| 19 | he 's saying he did n't say it in the first place . |
| 20 | If you say , as sometimes judges in Court cases do , sometimes child abusers do , oh she led me on , she was eager and willing , oh she erm , well judges do n't actually say it in the first person , do they , usually ? |