Example sentences of "i [verb] it [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |
| 2 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
| 4 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 5 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 6 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
| 7 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 8 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 9 | It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort . |
| 10 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 11 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
| 12 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 13 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
| 14 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 15 | ‘ I closed it after the first year . |