Example sentences of "of it [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 2 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 3 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 4 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 5 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 6 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |