Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd better come in first , ’ Reid motioned to him , and with a wave to the others announced , ‘ This is Doctor Masters , our new doctor . ’ |
| 2 | This may affect social science data users the most since it might be non-policy areas such as data collection and analysis which are hived off first . |
| 3 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 4 | He had come out first of everyone in his early examinations , and worked constantly . |
| 5 | It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 6 | If that 's clear we then need to go back and attack the hiatus hernia with more erm , but we 'd better get your chest sorted out first . |
| 7 | Great care should be taken before attempting to drain the water out of this type of system — the boiler must be let out first . |
| 8 | The smaller systems will be rolled out first , probably around the third quarter this year . |
| 9 | If a house is bought this way all the surveys and investigations should be carried out first , and you must be ready to sign and exchange contracts on the day of the auction after paying over the 10 per cent deposit . |
| 10 | You may decide to see the entire list written down first and then to have the questions asked at random . |
| 11 | The other two were small fish , Jack Elam and Neville Brand , but they could have argued over first and second place in an Ugly Contest . |
| 12 | All the ones that she 'd got , that got low like Hannah and all that she 's phoned up first . |
| 13 | Look at the hand-in dates and do the ones that have to be handed in first , not the ones you feel are most interesting . |
| 14 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 15 | An Arab League meeting in Cairo on March 22 appeared to have produced an acceptable compromise proposal : al-Megrahi and Fhimah would be handed over first to the Arab League , which would then through UN channels deliver them to either the UK or the US judicial authorities ; the League then sent a delegation to Tripoli to negotiate the terms of the handover . |
| 16 | It comprised some of the very best of the Black-Earth belt , but after the Revolution it had been trampled over first by the Red Army advancing on Kiev from Kharkov , then by the German 20th Army Corps , and later by ruthless and bloodthirsty ‘ Green ’ armies . |
| 17 | Young Eric , who was modestly competent in English but certainly not fluent , was packed off first to a boarding school then to University College School , Hampstead . |
| 18 | When poking ends of copper pipe through walls , or under floors , make sure that the end is sealed off first with insulating tape . |
| 19 | And the slag is normally tapped off first . |
| 20 | He himself had been brought up first to obey orders and then to give them in the expectation of instant compliance , and was unacquainted with more complex patterns of relationship . |
| 21 | Gregory 's father died when he was still a boy , and he was brought up first by his great-uncle , Nicetius , then a priest in Chalon-sur- Saône , but later bishop of Lyons , and afterwards by Avitus , archdeacon of Clermont , where his uncle Gallus was bishop . |
| 22 | The legal theory is set out first . |
| 23 | Erm , if you look at this you can see it 's set out first of all in escalating premiums and level premiums , O K , that 's straightforward enough . |
| 24 | New books in the series will be brought out first in hard-back priced around £40 . |
| 25 | The , the fro the top cover should have gone on first should it ? |
| 26 | Material gone on first . |
| 27 | She 'd gone in first thing but could n't face the idea of working . |
| 28 | He and Sir Brian had gone in first to stand shoulder to shoulder , their comrades around them , a fighting circle of steel slowly edging into the city . |
| 29 | Stephen had gone out first , scrambling up the shaft , putting all his weight this time on the rope and wondering what would happen , whether they would ever be found alive , if the rope came unfastened from the spur of rock to which they had tied it . |
| 30 | Kurecolor Marker Inks are not much disturbed by subsequent overlaying and it does not make any real difference whether line or broad colour is put down first . |