Example sentences of "they [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We find them mentioned first during the reign of Edward I , in the 14th century when they were assessed to pay 20/ for the knighting of the Black Prince . |
| 2 | Although women were proportionately less successful than men in being elected ( 24% of them came first as against 35% of men ) , 1990 resumed the upward trend in female participation in local elections which had been so strangely set back in 1988 . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope you had them washed first . |
| 4 | Waving a group of the older ones forward , he started them moving first to lead the descent in an orderly manner . |
| 5 | Now what I want to do is I want them to respond first . |
| 6 | For twelve years , until the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 , they lived first in County Mayo and then in Rutledge Terrace , Salthill , about a mile from the centre of Galway . |
| 7 | Whose call must be the only they obey first : their husband 's ? |
| 8 | They concentrate first on a single problem ( A ) , before tackling different problems together ( A–C ) . |
| 9 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , London Division One outfit Tabard will have the crowd on their feet when they host First Division giants Northampton . |
| 11 | See exactly what they want first . |
| 12 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
| 13 | Still pleading competition and the greater suitability of women for keyboard work , they proposed first that machines henceforward be given alternately to men and women workers ; or , a further concession , that all new machines be given to men until there were 50 per cent worked by each sex , and attributed alternately thereafter . |
| 14 | Less skilled negotiators disagree in the order they think , that is , saying they disagree first and then going on to give reasons . |
| 15 | If they beat First Division Maesteg at the Arms Park on December 19 , Cardiff will face the winner of Narberth and St Peter 's . |
| 16 | As I alluded to earlier on , voltage gated channels have been cloned and sequenced and they show first of all homology between all three classes , sodium , er calcium and potassium . |
| 17 | They came first in 66 wards and emerged as the only national political party other than Labour and the Conservatives with any metropolitan councillors . |
| 18 | They came first . |
| 19 | They scored first from what should have been our free-kick , but that 's no excuse because they played some excellent stuff . ’ |
| 20 | In other words , they cut first and most their personal consumption rather than collective consumption . |
| 21 | She liked Sergei a lot , had fancied him like mad when they 'd first met , at the house of mutual acquaintances in Moscow . |
| 22 | We 'd heard the dogs ' barking spreading through the trees when they 'd first been unleashed . |
| 23 | Avril 's wish came true on April 6 last year , when the couple were married at the parish church in Saltburn where they 'd first met . |
| 24 | Also , the stage was bigger than they 'd first thought . |
| 25 | There had been a moon when they 'd first arrived , but the clouds had come while they were chopping wood , and the rain while they 'd cooked dinner on the two little primus stoves . |
| 26 | Cardiff turned back to Rohmer , and remembered again that feeling he was sure they 'd shared when they 'd first encountered each other . |
| 27 | When they 'd first arrived at the Base , she had quite liked the old Administrator , but since Paula 's death he 'd changed . |
| 28 | The Doctor had mentioned ionization when they 'd first entered the Operations Room ; ionization caused by electrical activity . |
| 29 | She 'd been abominably rude to him since they 'd first met . |
| 30 | After about ten minutes , they found themselves back where they 'd first arrived in Victorian London . |