Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head bent swiftly to kiss first one shoulder and then the other . |
| 2 | Erm a few hard facts just to confirm first of all |
| 3 | Now , could I , could I go through , cos I 'd like , I 'd like to at some stage ask you to do an exercise on this just to see first of all how complicated it is and then , at the end , how simple it is . |
| 4 | Or is it best to write first and see if they are interested ? |
| 5 | He forgot that he had told her not to write first . |
| 6 | Lisa Spence was unfortunate not to get first prize in the Juvenile Drum Majors section , but happily secured second place . |
| 7 | Food was placed to sizzle on the barbecue , and was turned with the help of long utensils , and as she worked beside Silas , moving rapidly to turn first one piece and then another , Lucy became conscious of a feeling of quiet satisfaction . |
| 8 | Schoolteachers were not expected to engage in research , and by the 1870s this was anyway much more difficult than it had been in 1800 : there was more to master first , and more equipment was needed . |
| 9 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 10 | Craftsmen with an eye to the future like Benjamin would be quite likely to make fairly late marriages — there would be a lot of saving up to do first , and the better established one was , the better the chances of attracting a lady of some substance . |
| 11 | The lingering of the ‘ frontier ’ myth and the easy availability of firearms have led the police often to shoot first and make enquiries second . |
| 12 | On a kill they show no special relish for liver , heart or kidneys by singling them out to eat first as delicacies . |
| 13 | Initially conceived to capitalise on Time Out being off the streets , it was clearly a mistake to sit back and allow Time Out to return first . |
| 14 | More satisfactory measures of total fertility can be based on estimates of the chances of women going on to have first , second , third etc. births ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll meet you in the foyer at seven o'clock this evening , and we 'll find somewhere to eat first . |
| 16 | The father of one of the young children who is about to receive First Holy Communion told me that he did n't practise any faith because it bored him but still wanted his child to receive Holy Communion . |
| 17 | The latest edition of the manual of the St John Ambulance , St Andrew 's Ambulance Association and the British Red Cross contains the latest information on how to give first aid in such emergencies . |
| 18 | But all the same , it is more neighbourly to ask first . |
| 19 | There 's such an array of good things to see in Switzerland , that it 's hard deciding where to go first . |
| 20 | The hall into which she stepped was not a hall at all , but a large and very high room , with doors leading off it in most directions , and it was so full of unexpected things that she found it hard to know where to look first . |
| 21 | One of the most promising of the younger brigade is Adam Scowcroft who is one of 10 yet to have first team experience . |
| 22 | But to have him sitting beside him , looking his followers over in silence and courteously waiting for someone else to speak first — this was a situation beyond Hazel 's experience . |
| 23 | The route continues for a short way beside the beck , crossing it and turning right to head first slightly north-east and then north-west until a small beck is crossed , and then another by the Cortina Bridge — named after a Ford Cortina crashed here in one of the Lombard RAC rallies . |
| 24 | ‘ He taught me never to look first at the things you want to buy . |