Example sentences of "[adv] first [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were n't used much first I started just seaweed and dung . |
| 2 | The machinery clanked up and over and up and over again , gulping down first him , then the shorts-to-be , then me . |
| 3 | They were interested in the way that the connections between an eye and a cortical neuron were affected by whether that eye had or had not been used , so first they measured the numbers of cells establishing these connections in normal animals . |
| 4 | Holes in the floor outside , and inside , the orphanage served as toilets , and water had to be drawn from a single well in the grounds , so first they set about unblocking the drains and opening sewers . |
| 5 | So first we need to be sure that the other record is in fact reliable and , second , we need to remember how little total evidence we have from the ancient past . |
| 6 | So first I disconnect the cable where it joins the front wheel . |
| 7 | I want you to relax on your birthday so first I 'm going to do all the laundry next I 'm going to do all the dishes and then I 'm going to vacuum the whole house . |
| 8 | Okay now er Garth Brookes my favourite country singer at the moment and er your chance to win this Elvis video okay you have to ring in we 're giving this away first you have to ring in and tell me and tell me the next word no I ca n't do that I ca n't no I ca n't do it 's too easy okay . |
| 9 | Always send one engine off first you see . |
| 10 | Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old . |
| 11 | It would probably come off first I would imagine , I do n't know . |
| 12 | If we do n't warm up first we can easily pull a muscle or tear a ligament , just as the elasticity in a rubber band is greater if it is warm than if it is cold . |
| 13 | just whatever one come up first you went for the interview and if you answered it you just took it . |
| 14 | Now , if you had two horses up the front , you see th their heads are facing this way the engines , th starboard er , two engines you see and they all put starboard up first you know . |
| 15 | But coming up first it 's open surgery with Dr Kathleen Long . |
| 16 | ‘ Now first we stand and understand , |
| 17 | Whose arms went out first they would never know , but suddenly they were holding each other tightly , their mouths hungry for each other . |
| 18 | But er if I would suggest but if you 're er letting that train out first you see and . |
| 19 | Er it would n't have been so bad you know because we when we set out first it was just you know to be successful at home and then we were successful over here and that was you know was the serious big surprise . |
| 20 | I opted for the neckband , as I usually do , because I like to do these double , so if the front bands go on first I have to do two buttonholes on the double fabric of the neckband . |
| 21 | Usually , the valedictions of old-boy poets are addressed to writers just above them on poetry 's wobbly squash ladder — thus Wright addresses his hello-and-goodbyes to C. H. Sissons , David Gascoyne , Charles Causeley ( Do you remember how we met/In the studio of Patrick Swift … ) , and George Barker ( So long it is since first we met , /And in another world , it seems , /Where , out of pocket , down at heels , /Night after night in Rathbone Place … ) |
| 22 | Whenever you get here first you can go in and warm the bed up , ca n't you ? ’ |
| 23 | Well first they want to know you know , which wh we 've got a new system have n't we |
| 24 | no listen , listen , listen , then we can , well first we go , go to your house yeah |
| 25 | So erm Well first you you welcome them and then say , erm you know , how much time have they got because we offer two tours . |
| 26 | Neelam : Well first I thought it was twenty something but then I realised it was six ; two take away six ca n't do that … so … um … it went down to ten . |
| 27 | ‘ If , while talks are in abeyance , there is abuse by those who would seek to interfere with humanitarian aid — attacking protected areas , resuming the sustained shelling of Sarajevo , for example — then first I would remind you that the NATO military option is very much alive , ’ Clinton said . |
| 28 | Sometimes , if the child writes in there first I say , I concur with what so and so has said , Well done or something like that . |
| 29 | That bastard over getting there first I think ! |
| 30 | You mean this ingrate has n't been yearning , dreaming , fantasising , slavering ever since that magical , lyrical , blossom-scented night when first they met ? |