Example sentences of "first to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia with a letter in her hand , speaks first to Lucetta . |
| 2 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 3 | If your correct entry is the first to be drawn you 'll be driving away a fantastic new Renault Clio RT 1.4 voted Car of the Year ! |
| 4 | In the glow the lazy blue smoke of a cigarette folds in slow waves to vanish in the sepia shadows of the room Everything about us says come here , you , and our fingertips are first to arc between us and hover on cheeks , lips , chin . |
| 5 | She smiled , turning her head first to one side , then to the other so that they could all see the smile . |
| 6 | I wo n't linger on the shingle flats , for I 'd come to climb , and the route of my choice was the first to be recorded in Wales . |
| 7 | Inevitability , at once psychological and religious , enters ( so the letter goes on ) after the crime has been committed , in the shape of ‘ the truth of God and the law of nature ’ which compel Raskolnikov first to be exiled from the humanity he has outraged , and then to confess and accept the public consequences of confession as the only way to become a man among men again . |
| 8 | Bunting , who respected Eliot , applied himself first to rebutting the reasons which Eliot gave , in his Introduction to Selected Poems ; for omitting this long and elaborate poem : |
| 9 | The trial was conducted under martial-law provisions proclaimed only on the day of their arrest , and was the first to be held under these procedures . |
| 10 | Go first to the albeit small exhibition : in Prince Charles the backlash against modernism has an impassioned protagonist and the display leaves one in no doubt about his views . |
| 11 | Atkinson , matching his attacking partner goal for goal , belted in the fourth from 20 yards , and the only question remaining after the most one-sided of first halves was which of them would be first to his hat trick . |
| 12 | We passengers discuss among ourselves what to do and , as their designated representative , I try turning the controller first to Hot and then midway between Cool and Hot . |
| 13 | One resident , Jim Goodson , aged 105 , who enlisted in the Army in 1902 at the age of 17 , remembered being one of the first to be issued with a khaki uniform , an improvement on the red tunics which the Boers picked off so easily . |
| 14 | He was sent to be , commanded to be , the first completely human being , the first to be wholly at one with the human race , to be , therefore , wholly at risk from us , to be the victim , the scapegoat on whom we could project our guilt and our fear of being human , of being loved . |
| 15 | ‘ We eat eggs all the time ; we 'd be the first to be affected . ’ |
| 16 | Ed Wallis , of PowerGen , was the first to openly admit that having paid the piper , he would expect a choice of tune . |
| 17 | He is now based in Bradford , birthplace of his manager , Tom Moran , who moved in the Sixties first to Nigeria and then to Thailand as an engineer . |
| 18 | The unrest , which killed 11 people , spread elswhere in the south , the traditional base for support for the Hashemite regime ; first to al Hassaniyeh and al Tufeila , and then up to Kerak , Madaba and Salt . |
| 19 | The steppes were the first to be affected , so that in June alone over a million peasants left them for the Volga . |
| 20 | He went first to the then elder statesman of the faculty of divinity , William Telfer the Master of Selwyn , whom Ramsey respected . |
| 21 | Tom , when he woke later had insisted that they should absorb some culture , had chivvied them both into his car and driven them first to the Villa Lante . |
| 22 | This transformation was due first to the influx of runaway serfs into the towns which meant that labourers free from the personal ties of feudalism , but having no access to the means of production , became a dependent and exploitable group which was to become the proletariat . |
| 23 | The women in this book fall essentially into two groups — those who come directly from certain peasant societies of India , Pakistan and Bangladesh and those whose families migrated from the same peasant backgrounds first to East Africa and then to Britain . |
| 24 | Clean changes were possible given a little patience , but moving from first to second was reminiscent of shovelling coal — sometime the lever slid into place , sometimes it jarred my whole body . |
| 25 | Bewildered by the holocaust of events , by death that had suddenly changed a world , he began apologising , first to the policemen : ‘ I do n't know what to say , his best man to die like that … ’ and then to his son : ‘ I 'd give my right hand to have things different , Jack . |
| 26 | The Inspecting Officer , accompanied by the Commandant and the Parade Commander , head for 1 Platoon Who are the first to be inspected . |
| 27 | Results of a survey conducted by the Department of Health — the first to be published since the change in the law — showed that the average adult weekly alcohol consumption had not changed between 1987 and 1989 . |
| 28 | In On the Night of the Fire ( 1939 , The Fugitive in US ) , Ralph Richardson plays a small-town barber whose desire to be shot of a miserable life , ‘ earning a few quid a week and no hope of making anything more ’ leads him first to an act of casual theft , then murder . |
| 29 | Fisher & Paykel was the first to be affected as speeds dropped from more than 11 knots to only eight . |
| 30 | All the smart money for the first to finally come up with the goods is on John Lasseter of Pixar , the perennial star of animation festivals and the winner of the 1989 animation Oscar for the short film Tin Toy . |