Example sentences of "set [adv prt] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the decision of Midland Bank in 1989 to set up First Direct , its branchless telephone-banking arm , just outside Leeds owes an indirect debt to the tradition of Yorkshire thrift — market researchers found that people trust Yorkshire accents on the telephone . |
| 2 | Mother , father and six children set off first by train in open cattle trucks . |
| 3 | She was too tired now to walk over the moor but she would set off first thing in the morning . |
| 4 | According to , depute clerk of session and secretary to the working party , ‘ there are perceptions that the process is slow but senior law officers have received no particular complaints so it will set out first to test these perceptions by asking if this is in fact the case . ’ |
| 5 | The legal theory is set out first . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This chapter starts with a discussion of the quantity theory of money , setting out first the Fisher version and secondly , the Cambridge cash-balance version . |
| 8 | They needed to be there at daybreak , so the Islander set off first at about 11pm and Spencer took-off at two o'clock in the morning . |
| 9 | 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 . |