Example sentences of "we [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where are we goin' first ? ’ he yelled over the wind noise . |
| 2 | ‘ We eat first , ’ he said , ‘ and we eat well . ’ |
| 3 | Now , ’ he went on before she could reply , ‘ I suggest we eat first , then discuss matters — if there is anything to discuss — afterwards . ’ |
| 4 | For twelve years after J. and I were married we lived first in West and then East Africa , an entirely different kind of life from what had gone before . |
| 5 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 6 | In order to decide what to include in the questionnaire we drew first of all on issues which had emerged in the two case studies . |
| 7 | We appear first and foremost for others . |
| 8 | Thus in a passage quoted by James , Wundt writes : ‘ If we touch first the back of one hand and then of the other , we remark a qualitative unlikeness of sensation . |
| 9 | We propose first to expand credit in order to create demand . |
| 10 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 11 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 12 | We focus first on the moral issues , and then move on to consider the debate over the factual consequences of insider dealing . |
| 13 | To illuminate the interlocking bargains that produce such compromises and contradictions , we focus first on monetary , then on trade policies , for these are the prime determinants of demand conditions . |
| 14 | In this chapter we show first how the age structure of Britain 's population has changed during the twentieth century , and how it is likely to change in the century 's final years and beyond . |
| 15 | ‘ What do we do first ? ’ |
| 16 | So which shall we do first ? |
| 17 | You put big heading Paul , what did we do first , what did we talk about first ? |
| 18 | So what did we do first ? |
| 19 | So we 'll draw a pie chart now which one shall we do first ? |
| 20 | Whose shall we do first ? |
| 21 | We came , we came first , excuse me |
| 22 | We 'd first met at Bridge Street Methodist Church , when she was no more than eleven . |
| 23 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 24 | We joined first the Brownies and then the Girl Guides and Ranger Guides . |
| 25 | We shall assume that the syntactic positions for adjectives in English are as below ; we give first the intensional pattern of which each is the surface exponent , as well as an example for each , and also an instance which is ungrammatical and where we shall later be able to suggest reasons for the ungrammaticality ; in each case we shall underline in the intensional pattern the property which is instantiated by the adjective , merely for clarification and not as an integral part of the notation : [ P E ] prenominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : adjective + noun as in hungry passengers ; but note that *asleep kittens is ungrammatical { [ E ] ( P ) } ordinary predicative position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + be + adjective as in the critics were upset ; but note that her husband was mere is ungrammatical [ E P ] postnominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + adjective as in the crimes alleged ; but note that the road wide is ungrammatical ( ( P E ) P ) predicate qualifying position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + noun phrase + adjective as in he brought his gun loaded ; but note that she uses her mixer lightweight is ungrammatical [ E ( P P ) ] postverbal position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + adjective as in the crowd remained angry ; but note that his brother resisted obstinate is ungrammatical ( ( P P ) E ) adverbal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : verb + noun phrase + adjective as in Ali rubbed the lamp clean ; but note that Mark resembles the officer sinister is ungrammatical ( P { E P } ) clausal position = surface syntactic sequence : verb + noun phrase ( + be ) + adjective as in he considers the prosecution case hopeless but note that Sue reported the prizes aplenty is ungrammatical { E P } P extraclausal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : adjective + clause as in furious , the king ordered many arrests but note that furious , the king had three wives is ungrammatical As we have said , these are the adjectival positions of English ( and possibly of any natural human language ) . |
| 26 | We consider first greenhouse forcing alone ( Table 1 ) . |
| 27 | There are some differences , however , and these are best understood if we consider first those who may vote in local elections and second those who may be elected as councillors . |
| 28 | We consider first the eigenvalues ( supposed all different ) and modal matrix of a symmetric matrix A. then by ( 1.16.7 ) AX = X and on premultiplication unc Transpose this ; then since unc we obtain unc Comparison of ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) shows that unc so that unc permutes with |
| 29 | Therefore , we consider first the operation of the legal aid scheme . |
| 30 | We consider first the case where the proceeds of the interest tax finance a lump-sum transfer to the older generation ( as in Fig. 8–4 ) , evaluating at . |