Example sentences of "first thing [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN London friends come and spend the day with me in Hastings , the first thing they all want to do is sample the fish and chips . |
| 2 | The half lives of these radicals are measured in nanoseconds — they literally destroy the first thing they bump in to . |
| 3 | She had enjoyed the classes but the first thing they had taught her was how much she did not know , denting her confidence somewhat , and she was still terrified of the daunting Mrs Frampton-Cox . |
| 4 | The first thing they ask me on the 1st tee is , ‘ Billy , tell me all about your family . ' ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The first thing they 'd look at , ’ Billy countered , ‘ is a woman drivin' my auld rattlebones of a car ! |
| 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 | When they arrived in Milan , the two got off the train and , by coincidence , the first thing they both saw was a blown-up photograph of Penelope Tree . |
| 8 | The first thing they will then discover is that all the other grown-ups in the room tower above them and they actually have to crane their necks to look at their faces . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This is the first thing they want to do . ’ |
| 11 | The first thing they realised was that they would have to slow things down . |
| 12 | The first thing they do is switch the bloody lights on . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had his top brass coming in from Washington to look at the operation and the first thing they 'd see at Filanta Court was this 30-foot PLO radio mast . |
| 15 | The f the first thing they ask you , right is i it says |
| 16 | The first thing they 'd do if they captured one would be to hack off the two forefingers of each hand , the very ones our archers used to pull a long bow . |
| 17 | The digger careered around in a big circle , so that when the two humans crawled out of the wreckage it was the first thing they saw . |
| 18 | When they left the house next morning , to a sunny , rain-washed world , the first thing they noticed as they stepped out of the drive was a charcoal BMW with two young men in it , parked twenty yards from the front gate . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The problem is , the term Lamarckism has changed its meaning in the course of this century , and now Lamarckism , if you say Lamarckism to most educated people , the first thing they normally think of , is not evolution by will , or , or progressivism , but inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 21 | tragic that 's a good word to start from it 's the first thing they 're gon na look at after the headline so it 's pretty important that that the first word , I think looting was an excellent choice here . |
| 22 | The orphans were hungry as well as tired , and the first thing they did when they got to the disused school in Malvern where they 'll be based was to tuck into a slap-up meal . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ Many of them were aware of him and the job he does , but the first thing they did was to rush over and ask him for his autograph . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The traders asked us to regenerate the area and the first thing they do is criticise , ’ he said . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The first thing they asked him was how much money he 'd got ! |
| 30 | But the first thing they do is put the video on , they know how to work it and everything |