Example sentences of "it [adv] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 2 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 3 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
| 4 | If a weaving yarn is thick and slubby , consider weaving it only every third row . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | is , is it , is it just the second year that has erm , perhaps it not |
| 8 | Was it not the third Wednesday ? |
| 9 | Well that 's right , give it away the first part of the question |
| 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 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 12 | He began paddling at the age of 10 , got his first boat 3 years later , spent a week with PGL and followed it up the next year with a course at Raven 's Ait . |
| 13 | ‘ If you 've done all that during the day , leave it overnight , open it up the next morning and it should be cold . |
| 14 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
| 15 | He picked up my suitcase and carried it up the last flight , putting it down outside my door and turning to me . |
| 16 | He was still brazening it out the next morning when the Provost and his bodyguard of twelve mounted serjeants and ten archers came to collect us . |
| 17 | You test it out the next morning is n't it interesting you remembered as proof of the pudding . |
| 18 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
| 19 | It is important because if you do buy something from a shop and realize there 's something wrong with it , if you take it back the first thing the shop would say to you is can I see your receipt ? |
| 20 | take it back the next day |
| 21 | I can put fax stuff to Tracey and have it back the next day , but I 've got to physically fetch it , that is the only disadvantage or arrange to get it picked up . |
| 22 | If you 're a C D O at Trent and you know you 're gon na go out on patrol as a special that night , there 's no doubt Trevor will let you take a radio home with you , as long as you bring it back the next day . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Anyway , it was good fun , so we did it again the next year . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If I may just refer you sir to er my appendix which it actually the last page of your papers erm er if you see on it is actually page numbered thirty one and it 's paragraph thirteen thirty six at the very back of the papers . |
| 28 | ‘ Why could n't you say it quietly the first time ? |