Example sentences of "it [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle . |
| 2 | The resident male who was displaced then comes back and looks after all the eggs , including those of the pirate and the reason he does it presumably in the first place he ca n't distinguish which eggs he 's fertilized and those fertilized by the pirate and secondly , he knows he 's fertilized some of the eggs and therefore it pays him to stay and look after all of them . |
| 3 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 4 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 5 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 6 | But you can get it in For the first time at any age . |
| 7 | Erm with a view to saying really , providing we 've got it in by the first of April next year |
| 8 | ‘ I was very lethargic but I just put it down to the first months of my pregnancy . |
| 9 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 10 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | You want to throw it away on the first blonde blue-eyed gold-digger to throw herself across your path . ’ |
| 12 | Do n't bring it over to the first character , leave it exactly where it is . |
| 13 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 14 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 15 | Seeing it yesterday for the first time , she had reflected that great tact would have to be employed for two women to share quarters this size . |
| 16 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 17 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 18 | They moved on , following it up to the first of the ruined buildings . |
| 19 | But if your item weighs a half a kilo , we 'll round it up to the first kilo so that 's any valid for fifteen pounds . |
| 20 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 21 | When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the |
| 22 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 23 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 24 | Well he brought it up in the first place . |
| 25 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
| 26 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 27 | For the Sunday the pros would be on their own , battling it out for the first prize of £500,000 . |
| 28 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 29 | Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant . |
| 30 | The Gloster meteors will be slogging it out in the first round of the British baseball knockout cup on Sunday . |