Example sentences of "i [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let me think first ’ he quipped . |
| 2 | ‘ Let me think first , ’ he quipped . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose you want me to go first , ’ said Caspar as they stood looking up at the open window , which was grimy and smeary , but much lower than the other windows . |
| 4 | ‘ Let me explain first about the insurance , ’ she began . |
| 5 | erm let me consider first of all the minor claim , and here I think it 's only fair to tell you that I 'm not a palaeotologist . |
| 6 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |
| 7 | I asked first about my bag and felt my breathing quicken when the chief seemed unable to find my deposition . |
| 8 | GUIL : I asked first . |
| 9 | I asked first ! |
| 10 | I 'm sorry , I asked first ! |
| 11 | I want the music , cos I wan na co introduce them to music , so tape it , I asked first ! |
| 12 | I asked first ! |
| 13 | So you tape the music , I asked first ! |
| 14 | I asked first ! |
| 15 | May I answer first ? |
| 16 | Well I mean first of all you 'll smell it . |
| 17 | I 'll go fast , I mean first . |
| 18 | Oh well the Guild , yes I mean first and foremost we , you know , we are pledged to help the Guild . |
| 19 | I mean first thing he did was er redundan we used to get four weeks for every year redundancy payment , bang , no forget it . |
| 20 | I mean first of all I would need to believe in the company the product and that the quality is saleable . |
| 21 | The suggestion that er we should join this er , I mean first of all I think that 's if they would allow us to join it , and obviously we realise why they want to join this , rather to the Archbishop of Canterbury saying he would like to join er sit in his cabinet and , and , this , this that sort of level of discussion . |
| 22 | I mean first day |
| 23 | Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ? |
| 24 | I clapped first |
| 25 | Then I found first gear and stomped on the accelerator . |
| 26 | For this purpose , I propose first to discuss the several bloom shapes and forms , then the growth and habit forms and variations , and then progressively to pass on to the many breed and race classifications . |
| 27 | ‘ So , I propose first to employ implicit honesty . |
| 28 | Erm , I apologise first of all Mr Mayor er for the second meeting in a row dealing with traffic matters affecting High to full council . |
| 29 | I want first to focus on the latter meaning , and to describe in some detail what teachers are talking about when they say they are stressed , or suffering from stress . |
| 30 | She said : ‘ We ought to go straight to meet Cobalt but there are other things I want first . ’ |