Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As long as she goes first . |
| 2 | Either : she understands him , his dream of a world beyond the world 's end , so profoundly that she 's spooked by it , she turns first towards it , then away ; |
| 3 | She looks first at how the present conceptions and practices of philosophy might admit of different points of view at all . |
| 4 | So that most times she wakes first and creeps back and forth in the dark . |
| 5 | I lie down , and she draws first the sheet over me then the blankets . |
| 6 | When you get home , tell her that I do n't propose to tell the police about the call unless she does first . |
| 7 | She comes first before everything . " |
| 8 | ‘ You … you mean she comes first , before my feelings ? ’ |
| 9 | As long as she comes first to make sure |
| 10 | It refers first to the widening of the scope of collective bargaining to include subjects other than pay and conditions , citing as examples : the provision of time and office services for lay trade-union representatives ; man-power planning ; job and income security ; and disclosure of information . |
| 11 | He goes first . |
| 12 | No , he thinks first of you . |
| 13 | In this area he builds first a small depression by removing mouthfuls of sand and then produces a nest from weeds which are coated with a sticky substance so that they can be moulded with his snout . |
| 14 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 15 | Our usual joke is that for a Hungarian novelist to get published and widely read , he has first to be sent to prison . |
| 16 | He has first of all a touching proclivity to awe-struck admiration of whatever is presented to him as noble by a constituted authority ; and , secondly , a complete absence of any immediate reaction to a work of art until his judgement has thus been hypnotized by the voice of authority … |
| 17 | In the annals of history , Ivor 's name will be first in the Book of the Elect at the Cathedral , as he has first to be called during the ceremony . |
| 18 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance : and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 19 | ‘ Is a trial judge entitled to refuse to permit the Crown to discontinue a prosecution after the Crown has called evidence which in his judgment could properly sustain a conviction if the jury believed it and before the case for the Crown has been closed , provided he has first ascertained in the absence of the jury that the Crown were not in possession of facts of which the judge is unaware , which would justify discontinuance ; and when counsel for the Crown decides to take no further part in the case , to call himself the one remaining prosecution witness whose evidence was merely to produce signed and initialled notes of an interview the police had with the defendant ? |
| 20 | It looks first at market demand . |
| 21 | Hard disks can be huge , so DOS does n't search the whole thing for a matching name ; instead it looks first in the current directory and then in the subdirectories which are specified in the PATH command . |
| 22 | If a retailer wants to find out the value of sales for each metre of shelf space in a shop , he needs first to find out what the TOTAL shelf measurement is , by measuring each shelf and adding the lengths together . |
| 23 | It offers little , and concedes little , to merely natural feelings : even religious feelings it will not heighten till it has first sobered them ; but at its greatest it shines with a white light hardly surpassed outside the pages of the New Testament itself . |
| 24 | Literature may only be used as " evidence " when it has first been assessed " critically " as literature . |
| 25 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 26 | ‘ It starts first time , every time , ’ she says of her Citroen AX . |
| 27 | Oxford are also playing at Tranmere in the league next saturday … you can see highlights of the Swindon Town game on Central 's midweek sports special … and no Hereford fan should be missing from Edgar Street on Wednesday with Vinny Jones and the Crazy Gang in town … finally Swindon have put last season 's top scorer Craig Maskell up for sale … he wants first team football |
| 28 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 29 | It passes first through high , increasingly thin pastures and then between tremendous rock-falls to the small settlement of Héas , the highest it is said anywhere in the Pyrenees , at 5,000 feet , swamped by an avalanche in 1915 and made up today only of a chapel and two or three houses . |
| 30 | Charles Ryder , whom he introduces first to the enchanted world of the great English house and then to Venice , would give all he ever had , and far more , to live in such high ceremonial heavens — ‘ I was drowning in honey , stingless ’ — and is forever shut out . |