Example sentences of "[verb] it the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 2 | Please note that you do not have to open the rings to put these markers over , though you should after you 've done it the first time , erm , it should become easier with practice , let me put it that way , okay . |
| 3 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
| 4 | Alison also likes 60s music ( too young to remember it the first time around ) and buying things for her home . |
| 5 | The dog is commanded to sit and if he does n't do it the first time , he is pushed gently into position . |
| 6 | I did n't believe it the first time either . ’ |
| 7 | I hated it the first time . |
| 8 | He really did n't like it the first time we played it , so he tried spoiling it . |
| 9 | Suppose , for example , that your most recent life had been a particularly horrifying and traumatic one : you would not really want to experience it the first time you were regressed , as you might not be able to cope . |
| 10 | MapInfo Inc , Troy , New York , is shipping its MapBasic Development Environment for Unix calling it the first programming language for GUI systems allowing corporate developers to customise desktop mapping applications for a given industry or department . |
| 11 | Verbatim Corp , Charlotte , North Carolina has come out with a 3.5 ’ partial-ROM optical disk , calling it the first image and data storage optical product to combine both magneto-optic and read-only functionality : the read-only part of the disk can be embossed permanently with data , such as an application , and the rewritable portion of the disk is available for user files ; the disks have total combined ROM and rewritable capacity of 128Mb . |
| 12 | Fortunately the judges agreed , and awarded it the first prize . |
| 13 | He misses it the first time , but I 've written it exactly like he played it , because it does n't really sound too bad ! |
| 14 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , she was doing it the first time I laid eyes on her ! ’ |
| 16 | And I like Lovejoy , except I 've missed but they 're repeats , but I never saw it the first time . |
| 17 | Should have realised it the first time , but that 's what happens when you make assumptions . |
| 18 | I said to her if she did n't make it the first time , let her lend you my hammer she said do n't you talk like that and do n't you let e Geoff hear you ! |
| 19 | He had heard it the first time as a child , in his grandfather 's yurt on the Khirgiz , and going to Burun 's quarters had found him awake also . |
| 20 | And that 's because the third world is bigger than any other section whether you call it the first world or second world or whatever , and I think the first and second put together . |
| 21 | We liked it the first time , it was a bit like |
| 22 | Between the last years of the 16C and about 1653 , they rebuilt the Church of St Salvator making it the first church in Prague of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 23 | Burlington , California-based Object Design Inc has put ObjectStore , its object-oriented database system , on SunSoft Inc 's Solaris 2.1 , making it the first object database ported to the system . |
| 24 | Object Design also announced that it has done an implementation of its ObjectStore object-oriented database for the NCR Corp System 3000 , making it the first object database on NCR kit under Unix System V.4 . |
| 25 | A good deal of the time he or she can get it the first time . |
| 26 | Marchmont was driven to complain that Anson had been ready enough to promise that he would ‘ do it the first moment it was possible ’ , and had already been strongly urged to promote Lieutenant Home by the Duke of Newcastle , but yet had done nothing . |
| 27 | It 's harder when you do it the first thing . |
| 28 | 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time . |
| 29 | I I th I thought I thought it was I S actually from the way you said it the first time , but that was just a guess . |
| 30 | We do not envisage using the TA to respond immediately to outrages in Northern Ireland or to make it the first wave of our assault for the repossession of Kuwait . |