Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
| 2 | Finally , Malcolm Fraser , ex-editor of the Standard and of the Daily Express became first honorary press adviser and subsequently was employed to run the press bureau at the colossal salary of £1,200 . |
| 3 | I 'd like the Laboratory building checked first , and as quickly as possible so that the staff can get back to work . |
| 4 | The circumstances of a particular case may oblige the partners as a matter of good faith to proceed first by way of warning as to future conduct or to offer a personal hearing to the offending partner , but few general rules can be laid down in this respect . |
| 5 | This principle now has statutory approval in s1(2) and it is unlikely that courts will agree to adjourn care proceedings unless there are particularly compelling arguments for allowing the criminal trial to proceed first . |
| 6 | Or , does the scientist know first , what he or she is looking for , in order then , to select the information he or she needs . |
| 7 | At this stage the jargon is an obstacle in that anyone wishing to find out about the field has first to interpret the jargon . |
| 8 | For those who are dissatisfied with housework , a statement of this feeling is problematic because the break between socially acceptable behaviour and individual experience has first to be made . |
| 9 | An interlocutory judgment will certainly enable the plaintiff to get an interim payment as will a judgment on liability tried first ( ie when a split trial has been ordered ) . |
| 10 | when did the contingency fund first come into the budget ? |
| 11 | Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp reported first quarter net profit more than twice what they were in the year-ago period — figures , page five — and says that demand for the Symmetrix 5500 series disk arrays has been greater than the company expected , so that it has had to increase the build plan for the remainder of the year . |
| 12 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 13 | I think mummy has first choice dear . |
| 14 | However , in the developed countries , AIDS has first affected gay men , haemophiliacs and injecting drug users . |
| 15 | Probably the remedy to try first , two or three times a day especially if there is a thick , milky-white , bland discharge that does not irritate or only very little . |
| 16 | But there 's spring to come first , with the violets and primroses , and then the summer . ’ |
| 17 | 4 secretarial staff , including the secretary to the head of department and a secretary on whom the Halford Mackinder professor has first call |
| 18 | At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards . |
| 19 | The taximan drove first to Old Street , where there was a garage open all night for the trade , and bought a tankful of petrol . |
| 20 | Eight six-weekly inspections were carried out and the winning department came first on five occasions . |
| 21 | The crews rowed to the beach and our boat arrived first . |
| 22 | Violence flared first in Helston , where an angry crowd of about a thousand gathered as William Body , a Commissioner charged with destroying every relic of popery , was desecrating the Church . |
| 23 | Elisabeth Leonskaja opts for the second of these views in her performance of No. 1 , and the deliberate- sounding first movement that results is not altogether convincing . |
| 24 | The three men stared out across the French countryside as the light turned first murky , then grey and finally black . |
| 25 | The car started first time for Volkov . |
| 26 | The industry lost first its export markets and then its domestic market to the Japanese because it was totally unprepared for the challenge from companies that operated on a truly international basis . |
| 27 | The research aims first to identify the factors responsible for the growth of the various elements of public expenditure , so that some idea can be obtained as to their future development ; and secondly to discover to what extent these developments have represented , and will represent , claims on real resources , contributions to real output , or simply an increasing burden of taxation . |
| 28 | For de Gaulle , the future meant first and foremost the international settlement , particularly the all-important German settlement . |
| 29 | Local authority planning policies might require an applicant to demonstrate first that a proposed development required a coastal location and , if this was the case , to show that recyclable coastal sites had been considered before undeveloped or partly developed coastal sites were targeted . |
| 30 | Despite his outer appearance and his bizarre equestrian habits , he was a highly respected practitioner residing first at St James 's and then in Mount Street , off Berkeley Square . |