Example sentences of "first thing [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half lives of these radicals are measured in nanoseconds — they literally destroy the first thing they bump in to . |
| 2 | The first thing they ask me on the 1st tee is , ‘ Billy , tell me all about your family . ' ’ |
| 3 | At the health centres in the country , the first thing they ask you is if you 're using family planning and if you are n't , they wo n't give you any medicines for your children . |
| 4 | The f the first thing they ask you , right is i it says |
| 5 | This is the first thing they want to do . ’ |
| 6 | I also think that a lot of black kids think that this is a white man 's country and , when any little thing goes wrong , a set-back , the first thing they jump on is colour . |
| 7 | For daily operation and domestic use , of course , the Electricity and Gas Authorities , they have to predict the amount of gas or electricity required , and the first thing they have to think about is what is the weather expected ? |
| 8 | The first thing they do is switch the bloody lights on . |
| 9 | Er water , lights , for any you know the light bulb goes , first thing they do they come running to us , you know , me lights are out . |
| 10 | You see , the way the Copts work is that if they decide on something , like a campaign of trouble-making and agitation , the first thing they do is set up an organization . |
| 11 | When you go into hospital the first thing they do is to stick a scalpel or a needle into the burns and if it hurts it 's not that bad . |
| 12 | ‘ The traders asked us to regenerate the area and the first thing they do is criticise , ’ he said . |
| 13 | And the first thing they do th they go to the wo er er bo the boss of the firm where they work for and want more money ! |
| 14 | It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down |
| 15 | Well it 's like all these got these of life in it , come out what 'll happen to her , the first thing they do is turn to God . |
| 16 | But the first thing they do is put the video on , they know how to work it and everything |
| 17 | And they come home , they find that the the flat 's been broke into , and that 's the first thing we know about it . |
| 18 | ( Notice in our paraphrase that the key factor , phrase or words is the first thing we refer to . |
| 19 | ‘ First thing we 've got to do is get the tarpaulin off , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Well , I suppose the very first thing we 've got ta ask is just , who or what are these ninety nine sheep ? |
| 21 | Okay , first thing we 've got to derive , we 'll do a couple of examples , let's have an employed client , and self employed , because when we start from differs , depending on whether employed or self- employed . |
| 22 | So although this is fifty pence when you show it on here the fir so the first thing we 've got to do is change this fifty pence to get away from fifty pence or thirty pence or twenty and change it into a fraction . |
| 23 | But I think , but I do think it does mean that the first thing we say is that the work is more important than some of , maybe some of the , the nicer to have three year projects at the moment . |
| 24 | Am I right in saying then i i is the first thing we need to agree on whether we 're gon na have a staff comment , and a pupil comment on there is tha , is that the first decision ? |
| 25 | The first thing we need to do is to set up the vertical grid on the page . |
| 26 | If you are , what I want you to do is to , to create a , a team plan and the first thing we need to decide in that team plan is where do we wan na get ? |
| 27 | The first thing we need it as a circle . |
| 28 | The first thing we need is someone to save us from our sins ! |
| 29 | First thing we want to have a look at is how it generalizes . |
| 30 | Since in the last resort everything has to be achieved by people , the first thing we have to consider is the sort of environment in which people can give of their best . |