Example sentences of "first [coord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American audiences were kind of small at first and it was a major promotional coup to have survived it all because a lot of dates were pulled at the last minute — promoters could n't get any interest . |
| 2 | The date was April the first and it did n't end a minute too soon . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the letter to Sarah Catt arrived first and it was she who was the first to break the news — by phone — to Charman , a circumstance that only added to the unpleasant situation . |
| 4 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 5 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 6 | An air of antiquity hung over that pathway , which , followed to its logical end , ran down to the river , as if the ancient Britons had used it first and it would go on being used even after the Bomb fell . |
| 7 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 8 | THE sigh always comes first and it 's always a loud one . |
| 9 | Head first and it was so funny . |
| 10 | If controlled breathing through your nose is not natural to you , it takes practice and concentration at first but it will soon become second nature — and you will feel better for it . |
| 11 | The shotgun may kill the first but it will scare away most if not all of the others . |
| 12 | Her ascent was the first but it was marred by the loss of climbing partners Liliane and Maurice Barrard and two of her best friends , Wojciech Wröz and Dobroslawa Miodowicz-Wolf . |
| 13 | I helped her at first but it was a mistake . ’ |
| 14 | Pearce look for Phillips on the right Lewis got there first but it dropped to Stone . |
| 15 | Well at first but it would n't work got to Romeo on time , so no I do n't . |
| 16 | After his show he said : ‘ I was a bit nervous at first but it went very well . |
| 17 | It were n't at first but it is now |