Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also wanted to go on first , not last . |
| 2 | Despite this , Nozick 's account can be used to show that you do know that you are currently sitting reading a philosophy book ( please sit down first ) . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | I am six-foot four , and , in order to sink a pint , I had to sit down first . |
| 5 | Whoever sits down first gets the remote-control . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm supposed to go in first thing in the mornings too , to light the stoves and dust round . ’ |
| 7 | Smart Drive goes in first eh ? |
| 8 | ( Do n't forget to move HIMEM down first ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'd better come in first , ’ Reid motioned to him , and with a wave to the others announced , ‘ This is Doctor Masters , our new doctor . ’ |
| 11 | I ca n't see that children 's perception of women is going to change until there are as many dads as mums waiting in the rain and , frankly , I think hell is likely to freeze over first . |
| 12 | Also there are elements in these sculptures which can not properly be understood if one has not first considered the contemporary revolution in painting . |
| 13 | Her pride made her speak as formally as he did and always be the one who moved away first . |
| 14 | It is difficult enough now to find any first or second round matches of any consequence in the women 's singles at almost any tournament , especially the Grand Slams . |
| 15 | In the hope that Willsford adapts to the place , I take him to come home first , ahead of Cool Ground , Brown Windsor and Stay On Tracks . |
| 16 | He always promised to come home first but then , he would say , ‘ Sorry , Cis . |
| 17 | This may affect social science data users the most since it might be non-policy areas such as data collection and analysis which are hived off first . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He lined up first in the 100 metres . |
| 20 | It starts up first |
| 21 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 22 | It 's not mentioned anywhere I think it ought to come up first in Q P9 does n't it ? |
| 23 | Warm up first ( follow the exercises in Chapter 6 — The Walker 's Workout ) , start slowly and do n't hurt yourself , for that is the fastest way to break the routine in your programme and is often the reason why so many exercise programmes fail . |
| 24 | Before you walk , always warm up first ( using the warm-up exercises in Chapter 6 — The Walker 's Workout ) . |
| 25 | ARIES DRESSES UP FIRST HYPERSPARC-BASED WORKSTATION FOR ITS PUBLIC DEBUT AT UNIFORUM |
| 26 | He had come out first of everyone in his early examinations , and worked constantly . |
| 27 | It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 28 | If that 's clear we then need to go back and attack the hiatus hernia with more erm , but we 'd better get your chest sorted out first . |
| 29 | Great care should be taken before attempting to drain the water out of this type of system — the boiler must be let out first . |
| 30 | If you decide to enter a competition , be sure to find out first who the judges are and read some of their work . |