Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You have to see them first hand . |
| 2 | But along that bare and silvery rim of sand , any self-respecting wild thing could not fail to see me first . |
| 3 | So you 'll want to see me first . |
| 4 | She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight . |
| 5 | He attacked me first . |
| 6 | unc If whole numbers are involved , then subtract them first . |
| 7 | ‘ There they are sorted and put back on the vehicles and re-delivered so that the franchisees can deliver them first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 8 | They asked me first of all why I paint on paper and I 'm using older to paint on . |
| 9 | These are powerful controls , and Hartke recommend using them first in order to set up the initial sound . |
| 10 | They all will stick back on , it 's best to paint them first and then stick them on . |
| 11 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 12 | Instead of arranging flowers immediately after cutting , help them last longer by conditioning them first . |
| 13 | ‘ that Dersingham 'd consult me first . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We want them first of all to be authoritative — and there 's no greater authority than the RHS . |
| 15 | When you practice dialogues listen to your language helper say them first . |
| 16 | Who wants to thump them first ? ’ |
| 17 | She paused , before adding accusingly , ‘ Besides , we have to find them first , and I 'm not sure sitting here indulging ourselves is a very effective way of doing that — particularly as my time in Denmark is limited ! ’ |
| 18 | Is there not two separate problems that we have to find them first and then the , then worrying about getting people to the theatre |
| 19 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 20 | But kiss me first . ’ |
| 21 | The Romans and Vikings used them first as routes into the country for conquest and later for trade . |
| 22 | If she had n't approached me first I doubt I should have recognised her , she was so different from the plump , fresh-faced girl whom I had met on the train that January morning more than three years ago . |
| 23 | Well thank you Chairman , I have to go back to last Wednesday afternoon , when I had a telephone call from a reporter from the Eastern Daily Press asking me to make a statement on the press release by Suffolk County Council stating that the Bungay bypass has been abandoned well Chairman I have to say that I was somewhat erm put out , because I did I disappoint I think because they , the Highway Department did n't have the courtesy to inform me first , and you can well imagine how I felt er having received this news . |
| 24 | Schedule I First Mortgage Debentures |
| 25 | Friends say she first became concerned about Charles 's ‘ special friendship ’ with Camilla before their marriage 11 years ago . |
| 26 | " And I want you first tell me why you took the gibbon to the palace when you knew it was wrong . |
| 27 | The term Commonwealth referred , of course , originally to a white Commonwealth , in which sense we first find it employed by Lord Rosebery in 1884 . |
| 28 | I 've arranged for you to meet him first . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They 've got to find him first , ’ muttered Lou defiantly . |
| 30 | That 's why you meet so many people at parties who are falling over themselves to recommend their accountant , dentist , gardener or solicitor , as if having a good one automatically bestowed a halo of good judgement on the one who found him first . |