Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope you enjoyed that discussion I mean well first of all if you live in the Selby area it 's been of relevance to you and you 've managed to hear what both sides are saying but I I hope even if you do n't live in the Selby area it 's er you 've er found it as fascinating as I have to hear the pros and cons of such a complex issue . |
| 2 | ‘ Out of the question or not , lad , I checked up first thing . |
| 3 | Well I was saying to Daddy actually I it would be better if I got up first and went in the bathroom . |
| 4 | Only last night I got here first |
| 5 | I got there first , ordered a Scotch , and opened the evening paper that I 'd bought on the way . |
| 6 | Ah well I got there first ! |
| 7 | I came here first in 1948 — the year the Nationalist Party took over power from General Smuts ( they have held it ever since ) . |
| 8 | That 's why I came here first . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ No , I came here first . |
| 10 | In a word , when I came thither first there was about one family in a street that worshipped God and called on His name , and when I came away there was not passed one family in the side of a street that did not so , and that did not , by professing serious godliness , give us hopes of their sincerity . |
| 11 | I have , I go round first , I report all the lame one , and I report all the good ones , you see , but I go round them all before I go down to see him . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be much easier if I went in first and then you could push me up , ’ said Fenella . |
| 13 | I went in first and all I saw was standard classroom with a blackboard down one wall , two lines of plain tables and some wooden chairs . |
| 14 | h how it is erm I think maybe first , er |
| 15 | I round up all the suitable containers in the house — china , glass and plastic , plain and coloured — and on U-day , I sneak out first and put them in strategic places all round the garden . |
| 16 | ‘ Shall I come over first thing in the morning and give you a hand ? |
| 17 | As I sat there first at EDC [ Economic Development Committee ] and then at Home Affairs , I reflected on the way that Cabinet Committees as well as the Cabinet itself are becoming part of the dignified element of the English constitution . |
| 18 | I would have done it if I had had the chance , but somebody got there first . |
| 19 | The name which stands chronologically first in the list is eloquent in itself ; and Nietzsche is explicit about the underlying cruelty ( in which he includes cruelty to oneself ) , not only of tragic art and religious self-denial , but of the pure appetite for truth , for its own sake and at any cost . |
| 20 | See which come along first , a red one or a blue ? |
| 21 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 22 | ‘ Good job you got there first . |
| 23 | I think I did get a letter from you in Danu when you got back first all those years ago , I remember I gave the stamps to my nephew . |
| 24 | Quite so it 's about feeling you 're going to make a fool of yourself , I mean what 's the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people |
| 25 | Mr Sangster , who tees off first at 8am today in a pro-am golf tournmament in Jersey , is hoping to arrive at Newbury about half-an-hour before the Fred Darling Stakes . |
| 26 | Her pride made her speak as formally as he did and always be the one who moved away first . |
| 27 | So did you do any singing when you came here first ? |
| 28 | It was she who turned away first and when she rested her arm against the wall to support the linen whilst she put the key in the lock , he came forward , saying eagerly , ‘ Let me . ’ |
| 29 | you know on first day when I was here |
| 30 | Whenever you get here first you can go in and warm the bed up , ca n't you ? ’ |