Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 2 | So just watch it after the first dose that evening , if you g Especially if you get out of bed to have a wee . |
| 3 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 4 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 5 | It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm very lucky because I 'm sure there are loads of managers who get fed up with their artists music or maybe never even liked it in the first place ! |
| 7 | Or does n't , you know , exhaustively optimize it on the first pass , all the time . |
| 8 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |
| 9 | And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go . |
| 10 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 11 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |
| 12 | 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 ? |