Example sentences of "it in the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) . |
| 2 | We want to go that step further and win the Bledisloe Cup after narrowly missing it in the Second Test against the All Blacks last year ’ , he said . |
| 3 | The it in the second sentence refers back to the ball . |
| 4 | so if you 're putting it in the second half of the second term |
| 5 | United won it in the second half . |
| 6 | Should have taken it in the second half , but they could n't find the net . |
| 7 | Villa won it in the second half . |
| 8 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
| 9 | We put it in the second bag , and that 's now four blue and three red . |
| 10 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 11 | Its garden front just manages to survive , intact on its eastern bays , sensitively refaced on the western , beneath the mound of Italianate jumble that Alfred Waterhouse piled on top of it in the 19th century . |
| 12 | There was a big surge of local optimism when Martin Crowe won what appeared to be a very important toss — not that winning it in the first Test had done NZ much good . |
| 13 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
| 14 | Was n't it in the first cousin of just this sort of place that two centuries earlier another wandering fiddler , the blind poet Raftery , had composed his famous lament about ‘ playing music to empty pockets ’ ? |
| 15 | Then on the day of issue you address the envelope , stick on the stamps , post it in the First Day Cover posting box , and it will receive a First-Day-of-Issue postmark . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 18 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 22 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 23 | Thought you were so damn smart getting it in the first place , and drink has blurred you so much you 've blown it . |
| 24 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 25 | The precautionary principle suggests that , as the future damage done by pollution is often more costly than the extra expense of avoiding it in the first place and in any case it is often unacceptable , even if a money cost ca n't be put on it , then prevention is better than cure . |
| 26 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 27 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
| 28 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 29 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |