Example sentences of "[verb] to first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Saint 's views on Rovers appear in Matchday , a new magazine devoted to first division football . |
| 2 | ‘ This is going to take time , ’ he said , adding that he does not yet have plans for IBM — he has to first learn the company by meeting executives , managers and employees . |
| 3 | ‘ This is going to take time , ’ he said , adding that he does not yet have plans for IBM — he has to first learn the company by meeting executives , managers and employees . |
| 4 | I want to first of all express our extreme pleasure for having the arrangements that were made by our good English friends , especially those associated with the Three-Ninetieth missile , well I 'm sorry but I 'll get that missile straightened out , Three-Ninetieth Memorial Air Museum . |
| 5 | Washington tried to first to mediate between Britain and Iran . |
| 6 | There was a silence for the first time it occurred to first form that the spider might of been put there on purpose , they looked at one another . |
| 7 | As this is the book I have turned to first ever since the first edition appeared in 1974 , it 's gratifying to note that enough people agree to take the volume into its third edition with a fourth on the way . |
| 8 | Here it is important to see that the traditional category of plural is not symmetrically applied to first Person in the way it is to third : we does not mean plural speakers in the same way that they means more than one third person entity ( Lyons , 1968 : 277 ) . |
| 9 | Durham Euro-MP Stephen Hughes will speak to first year pupils at St John 's Comprehensive School later this month and will also speak to students at the town 's Sixth Form Centre . |
| 10 | The contestants are always attended to first . |
| 11 | Liza 's car always appeared to be the one which had preferential treatment and although John Carrow , neither approving of nor trusting any lady to tinker about with a machine , begged them all to leave such things as cleaning carburettors to him , it was always Liza 's that got attended to first . |
| 12 | It was decided to first try out the simplest possible computational technique . |
| 13 | ITALY 'S ruling Christian Democrats appear to have suffered their most severe setback in any general election since the Second World War , according to first results and projections last night . |
| 14 | Compaq reported first quarter earnings of $1.23 a share , and the highest estimate on Wall Street was $1.20 a share , according to First Call . |
| 15 | At a cemetery in Carpentras in south-eastern France on May 10 , the body of a Jewish man who had died two weeks previously was disinterred and , according to first reports which were later contradicted , impaled ; the grave of a woman was also disturbed , and more than 30 others were damaged . |
| 16 | When you have listened to a language helper say a sentence several times , mimic him , remembering to first mimic the intonation and rhythm by humming or whistling the tune and tapping out the rhythm . |
| 17 | The integrand can be expanded to first order in : . |
| 18 | It does n't matter that the guitar was second-hand ; the law talks about contracts for the sale of goods , and does n't refer to first , second , third or even fourth hand . |
| 19 | ( Groom 's speech , replying to first toast to bride and groom , a longer , humorous speech . ) |
| 20 | The instigators of the revolt were Hugh and Matfrid , the dis-honoured of 828 : it was Pippin they turned to first ; and when Charles 's mother Judith was taken from her husband 's side , and accused of adultery with Bernard , she was sent to custody in Aquitaine , at Ste-Croix , Poitiers . |
| 21 | Guide to first degree courses in the UK . |
| 22 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 23 | I would like to first call , in alphabetical order , Robert |
| 24 | Too often , however , producers have not even got to first base , because the requirements for evolving strong scripts have been so poorly understood . |
| 25 | But because of the special circumstances of York we 've got to first define and refine the area of search to a specific corridor and then the other locational criteria are just a guidance , first we take the proposals forward to the local plan stage . |
| 26 | ( 10 ) I had myself to look to first of all . |
| 27 | They decided therefore that at their next meeting they would devote themselves to matters of ‘ general policy affecting courses in business studies ’ , and they did in fact , in September , consider a draft memorandum on courses leading to first degrees , and questions regarding board membership and procedures for the consideration of courses . |
| 28 | Open plan staircase leading to first floor . |
| 29 | You got the staircase in there but you will have got ornamental wrought iron leading to first floor archway to your dining room . |
| 30 | For those who already have a settled partner , home and children , says Sheehy , the runway to 30 often leads to first infidelity . |