Example sentences of "of [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have half a dozen birds between you and the shore , a cat is likely to get one of them first . |
| 2 | Some ideas just seem so good , you ca n't understand why on one else thought of them first . |
| 3 | If you have someone who is dependent on you and needs to be provided for , think of them first if you do n't plan to leave them everything , decide what they will need and what personal belongings you wish to leave them . |
| 4 | Bud Collins , one of America 's leading tennis commentators and writers , who wrote the foreword , assures me that he has seen Wegner prove the point by teaching newcomers from seven to seventy keep a reasonable rally going within two hours of them first picking up a racket . |
| 5 | However , do n't play around with these INI files unless you make copies of them first . |
| 6 | Okay what I want you to do is to get twelve of them first and put them into see how many rectangles you could make . |
| 7 | He discovered that 48 per cent of them first heard about the riot from another person , 27 per cent by direct observation and only 26 per cent from media coverage . |
| 8 | However that may be — and the question of which side made use of them first may well remain unsolved — the Roman law provided the necessary structure for the growing canon law and its study , canonistics ; and it also provided the German emperorship with some possible answers to the canonist onslaught . |
| 9 | Right , I 've spoken to both of them first thing this morning about their trainers . |
| 10 | Cos if he gets rid of them first then he does n't have to worry about those things until er later which sometimes does happen . |
| 11 | When he went home to Basle he showed the photographs to his family and pointed out to them ‘ my very good neighbour Canon Ramsay [ sic ] from Durham , an authentic Anglo-Catholic , with strange views concerning tradition , succession , ontology and so on , but also with a very convincing twinkle in his eye … a man with whom I more often agreed than disagreed … the outstanding figure in the picture of my first ecumenical experience ! ’ |
| 12 | one of my first artists came through a very old friend called Richard Ogden who now manages paul McCartney . |
| 13 | But it was the scene of my first heartbreak . |
| 14 | Almost without being aware of it I 'd progressed from the hesitancy of my first few days there to a strong positive desire to go down to the starting gate : any starting gate , anywhere . |
| 15 | I had ordered a consommé to begin and , by the end of my first course , she was clearly growing restless . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 17 | The first printing of my first book — The Capel Letters — was of 3,000 copies . |
| 18 | When I talk with children I used to coach , who are now working their way up the ladder of older and older age groups , I often think of my first experiences of cross-country running . |
| 19 | And that was the end of my first interrogation . |
| 20 | One of my first discoveries in the Mexican quarter of the city was Olvera Street , a typical South American thoroughfare , where tourists are encouraged to throw coins into the fountains for good fortune . |
| 21 | One of my first contacts there was Frank Mah , who with his clever wife Mary , became close personal and family friends for many years . |
| 22 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 23 | At the end of my first term , I was relieved of the science , for obvious reasons , and given two classes of art instead . |
| 24 | One of my first recollections of the fair was spotting on the Monday evening a toy tool set priced at one shilling on a stall near the Council House ( now called The Guildhall ) . |
| 25 | I spent the greater part of my first twenty-one years , sleeping in the first floor back , a room somewhat smaller than my mother and father 's . |
| 26 | As it turned out that was the end of my first World Championship . |
| 27 | One of my first ever professional engagements was as a clown with a witches ' hat on over the top ! |
| 28 | I did not then know any literary people , and my first contact with Ivy ( at one remove ) was when Spencer Curtis-Brown ( later to become literary executor of Elizabeth Bowen and Somerset Maugham ) accepted the agency of my first novel late in 1937 . |
| 29 | Reminds me of my first branch chair , an ex-miner , who used to give me a lift home in his Jag . |
| 30 | Across the east coast bays of Auckland , the subject of my first New Zealand paintings , wide expanses of shimmering sea change colour beneath the sky , reflecting in turn crimson , purple , turquoise , emerald green and many shades of blue . |