Example sentences of "do [pron] first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Having done my first sound broadcast in the Forties and made my first television appearance in 1952 , I can remember when Lord Reith 's belief that broadcasting 's prime function was to inform , to entertain and give all sides a chance to state their case , still reigned . |
| 2 | She was stiff and tense in every muscle but she had done her first good day 's work since the discovery of the murder . |
| 3 | You could always do her first so that that does n't |
| 4 | Erm when you do your stock do you first of all roast the bone ? |
| 5 | By the time it was all over , Norman had done his first mix , a poppy version of Eric B and Rakim 's ‘ I Know You Got Soul ’ which sampled The Jackson Five 's ‘ ABC ’ with a typical lack of concern for cool . |
| 6 | He had already done his first translation of one of Hitler 's speeches into English . |
| 7 | And Gordon has done his first deal with his wife Maggie McKernan . |
| 8 | If you say , ‘ Just have a go , we do n't mind if you do n't do it first time ’ , a sensitive child will probably clam up . |
| 9 | She 'd do it first . |
| 10 | No let Emily do it first cos she knows and you also have n't |
| 11 | Well no , you can do it first . |
| 12 | Okay so what I 'd like you to do now a little bit of revision which , which way shall we do it first of all no just talk about it both of you what you found easy and what you found hard . |
| 13 | He has run 165 marathons , 76 half-marathons , nine 61-milers , 13 30-milers and 13 25-milers — and he did n't do his first marathon until shortly before his 60th birthday . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it is important to do them first . |
| 15 | By the time I came to do my first talk , her feathers were a lovely tawny colour with large patches flecked with grey and smaller specks of black and white . |
| 16 | Dr Burney is going to do her first thing . ’ |
| 17 | His problem will be that Mrs Thatcher might decide to do it first , and then she will garner the votes . |
| 18 | It was a killer , but we had to do it first . |
| 19 | If ( and hopefully when ) you do finally quit , it may create more of a problem than if you gird your mental loins at the outset and make up your mind to do it first and foremost . |
| 20 | Should 've got him to do it first . |
| 21 | It can be quite difficult to find the nerve ( it can be quite difficult to find the switch too ) to do your first ‘ full-down autorotation ’ ( a descriptive American term ) . |
| 22 | It has been decided the powers that be , are onto the something that you are going to do your first semester exam in June . |
| 23 | ‘ I keep telling myself that it will stand me in good stead when I 'm about 40 and doing my first Isolde ! ’ |
| 24 | After joining the AIB in July 1955 and doing my first investigation on an Auster that had ditched in the Bristol Channel in August of that year , I was sent out to Tripoli , Libya in September 1955 to assist Penny Garnons-Williams ( known to many in the aviation industry as Garney Bill ) to investigate an accident to a BOAC Argonaut that had crashed at Castel Benito in a sand storm . |
| 25 | and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have . |
| 26 | Whatever the weather , when Rosemary gets back home she wo n't be on land for long at the end of the month she 's off doing her first stint at white water rafting ! |
| 27 | A few pints later , when the Vomits were doing their first encore , Jamie and I were up dancing , jumping up and down , Jamie shouting and clapping his hands and dancing about on my shoulders . |
| 28 | We were doing our first two weeks square bashing in the RAF as boy entrants . |
| 29 | Do them first , yeah . |
| 30 | and think , Well I 'm going to Not necessarily do them first . |