Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One went to bed at the house … and awoke to find himself first being strangled , then taken to a bath . |
| 2 | No injuries ; they 're unchanged , which means Nicky Summerbee has won that number 8 shirt and can consider himself first choice . |
| 3 | It encouraged him towards early independence and self-sufficiency without which he would not have got his career off to so quick a start ; and it must have contributed to the ease with which , to further that career , he uprooted himself first from South Africa and later from his adopted second homeland in Britain . |
| 4 | But you 've got to establish yourself first , have n't you ? |
| 5 | Moreover , there were many bishops who would have considered themselves first and foremost monks : St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( d. 687 ) had a respectable ancestry reaching back to St Martin of Tours ( d. c .397 ) . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | Put themselves first ( and others a close second ) |
| 8 | In contrast , the new novelists consider themselves first and foremost to be creative artists whose main obligation is to produce a well-crafted work of art that stands up in its own right as an autonomous reality . |
| 9 | Clearly farmers feel if they want any help , they have to help themselves first . |
| 10 | I transfer myself first to the salt-crusted wing-mirror , and then to the polished silver earring dangling from one of the lady 's delicious little lobes . |
| 11 | Prince never caters , never serv(ic)es ; he 's always pleasuring himself first and foremost , following his own wayward impulses . |
| 12 | I have often played host to married friends who bemoan their lack of privacy , or express their desire to be able to put themselves first , once in a while , instead of their partner , parent(s) , children or grandchildren . |
| 13 | They addressed themselves first to the peasantry . |
| 14 | We have to solve ourselves first . |
| 15 | He is free to consider himself first and foremost a participant in the nationally important business of the Bundestag . |
| 16 | ‘ Sorry , I should have introduced myself first . ’ |
| 17 | Recent work on lesbian alcoholism has had to devote itself first to disproving deviancy models of this condition ( e.g. Anderson and Henderson 1985 ) . |
| 18 | Also like , why , why , do people want to find love ? , like is it maybe lulling them into a false sense of si security erm and I think that it is really important as like one woman said earlier on that its really important to love yourself first , cos how can you give any body any thing |
| 19 | Now if somebody has got a load of chemical open and it is being absorbed , you must protect yourself first , if they are still conscious well then they will take off their own clothing , you do not unless you have got protective clothing on . |
| 20 | I ask myself first with what intention the plaintiffs paid the money , and , secondly , with what intention the defendants received it ? |
| 21 | ‘ Unless he discharges himself first , ’ Whitlock said and eyed Kolchinsky knowingly . |
| 22 | In fact this is the case because Christianity does not teach , " Thou shalt put thyself first " . |
| 23 | You should put yourself first and not care or be possessive about your children , or about making your husband the breadwinner happy , or making the home a nice place to be . ’ ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps you have to convince yourself first ! |
| 25 | The centurion … commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea and get to land . |
| 26 | Receivers a bank appointed under the terms of a debenture did themselves a disservice recently when they failed to pay themselves first out of the proceeds of the receivership , as they were entitled to do under the terms of their appointment . |
| 27 | It requires great restraint not to smother children with good intentions , to endure those looks of disappointment , and to banish feelings of guilt when one puts oneself first . |
| 28 | This gave me six free months to enjoy myself first . |
| 29 | Trust yourself first and financial institutions second . |
| 30 | The fact that Murphy considers himself first and foremost a businessman who happens to be in PR helps to explain the care with which the decision to sell PRCS was taken . |