Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policemen do n't find bodies unless they are sent to look for them or unless someone else has found them first . |
| 2 | I should have reported it first , but I thought I could always plead urgency if I was disciplined again , and I could n't take the risk of being denied access . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I should have unloaded it first , ’ Catherine Crane said , apologetically , ‘ but I just could n't move in any direction with it where it was . ’ |
| 4 | She would have smelt it first — long before the old girl downstairs : she did n't smell it till we went in to get her . ’ |
| 5 | Possibly de Moivre was one of Bayes 's teachers , so that Bayes may have learned of the problem directly from him , although he may equally have encountered it first in his writings or in the Observations on Man , His Frame , His Duty , And His Expectations ( 1749 ) by David Hartley [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Fill this with a small amount of cat litter , having lined it first with newspaper . |
| 7 | For some reason , Belgion had resented this observation , not because he thought it untrue but because he claimed to have said it first . |
| 8 | He had wanted to go dispatched him first to Mauritius and then to South Africa where , on 26 July 1944 , he died . |
| 9 | His defence was that of self-defence ; he alleged that the victim had attacked him first . |
| 10 | He said Mr Hawthorne had attacked him first , striking him with the crowbar on the hand . |
| 11 | Lorton had met him first in Beirut where he ran a short-lived but lucrative business selling the same medical supplies to more than one purchaser . |
| 12 | When Rostov had noticed them first , they had been deep in animated conversation — a conspiratorial group of people who were the least likely , considering all the circumstances , to be found in close and apparently friendly contact with one another . |
| 13 | Ludens saw , on top of a closed suitcase in a corner , the curious light-brown cap which Marcus had been wearing when Ludens had seen him first , through the window of Red Cottage . |
| 14 | When she had seen him first , she had marked him as a " bully " , one of those who kept the brothel girls in line . |
| 15 | Nora had seen him first and was already running far dear life , not caring about her bag or the bicycle . |
| 16 | She could see nothing unless he had seen it first . |
| 17 | You 've got me first two lessons after dinner have n't you ? |
| 18 | An air of antiquity hung over that pathway , which , followed to its logical end , ran down to the river , as if the ancient Britons had used it first and it would go on being used even after the Bomb fell . |
| 19 | Jamaica indicated another approach to the art of colonization , in which the government took valuable colonies away from Europeans who had reached them first . |
| 20 | The bright light — this was what had struck them first — issued from an old street lamp , leaning at a crazy angle , rather suggesting an amateur production of Tales of Hoffmann , fitted , in place of glass , with sheets of mauve plastic , and trailing a long cable which disappeared down the companion . |
| 21 | If only you had read it first — as at least six people did without realising . |
| 22 | A white , middle-class widow sets out for the hinterland in search of her maid 's son ; but the police have found him first . |