Example sentences of "you [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | No daughter of mine 'll set foot in it — I 'd see ye dead first ! ’ |
| 2 | Whatever Jean saw in you that first occasion was still there and she accepted your explanation about letting her down that evening . |
| 3 | But when I saw you that first time in the garden , I most certainly wanted you , My Cassie . |
| 4 | I knew it when she met you that first time you came to my place . ’ |
| 5 | Ah computational modelling is easier for me to present to you but then the role of context might become more important so you can appreciate it , in which case I shall give you that first . |
| 6 | A little later he crooked her in the shelter of his arms and said , ‘ You 've no idea what it took for me to come over to see you that first time . ’ |
| 7 | When I kissed you that first night , and accepted that I desired you , I knew then that with the situation so volatile I should get us both out of there and back to Mariánské Láznë . ’ |
| 8 | No I will tell you this first |
| 9 | As she groped towards a chair he made no move towards her but watched her sit down , then bow her head for a moment before slowly raising her eyes to his again when , in a voice that had lost none of its bitterness , she said ‘ Leave me ; but I 'm warning you , I 'll see you dead first , before you take that girl . ’ |