Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 2 | ‘ A tale from Lamb , ’ she muttered , opening it on the first page . |
| 3 | Ludo notices it for the first time , and asks what he can do for me . |
| 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 | We we 're keeping it under the first weight bracket er for for cost reasons . |
| 6 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 7 | Staff wishing to avail themselves of this flexitime arrangement should discuss it in the first instance with their line manager . |
| 8 | No definition is spot on really , you can always find difficulties with it but they do sort of discuss it in the first paragraph . |
| 9 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 10 | This relationship is indicated by equating it with the first m of the oral plate is the second area . |
| 11 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 12 | Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place . |
| 13 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 14 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 15 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
| 16 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 17 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 18 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 19 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 20 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 21 | This is normally accompanied by the equally widespread concentration on the factual content or the basic manipulative skills in the material and the associated neglect of the higher-level objectives that were probably the author 's main motivation in developing it in the first place . |
| 22 | Seaforth also tops the line 's efficiency league , ahead of European ports of call , and ACL uses it as the first and last calling point to take advantage of the growing links with the Mediterranean , Northern Europe , the Baltic States and Ireland . |
| 23 | But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem . |
| 24 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 25 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 26 | Why do it now , why did n't she do it in the first place . |
| 27 | This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment . |
| 28 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 29 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 30 | GUIL : But if he gave it to me there 's no reason why you should have had it in the first place , in which case I do n't see what all the fuss is about you not having it . |