Example sentences of "[noun sg] go 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 | ‘ Let the lady go first . ’ |
| 3 | The black goes first . |
| 4 | Before he could speak , the lights changed and out of innate respect Jack remained stationary , waiting for his once and future King to go first . |
| 5 | This water goes first to generate hydro-electric power and then to irrigate the land . |
| 6 | As the last in , Peter Wilson becomes the natural choice to go first . |
| 7 | The artist goes first . |
| 8 | ‘ My turn to go first . ’ |
| 9 | Right , I think it 's the left turn to go first . |
| 10 | A captain goes last on to his ship , but a man goes first into a tricky situation . |
| 11 | may also have the give way sign on invert inverted triangle on the carriageway , you must be ready to let traffic on the major road go first . |
| 12 | But this problem can be , to a certain extent , avoided if a person who has HIV infection goes first to a Sexually Transmitted Disease ( STD ) clinic for treatment . |
| 13 | It 's not quite as far to the main school , cos the main school goes first and the prep school far , no there 's no up that road , it does n't go anywhere only to the school . |
| 14 | This time I made sure my master went first and , whilst he ran down the stairs , I scampered like a rabbit to the top of the tower , forcing back the trap door , standing in the same place that poor Falconer had . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you think we should let this guy go first ? ’ said Ted . |
| 16 | Assuming he was murdered , assuming that the murderer went first into the kitchen , then he could have crept back silently and attacked Berowne from behind . |
| 17 | To watch her mother go first pale with shock , then stiff with rage . |