Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [pron] first " in BNC.

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1 if he 's there , she says , it 's not fair on Maggie so I 'll ring her first .
2 far back in my life so I can recall my first piece of actual writing , I have a scrapbook at home and I look at it regularly , it had my first pieces of work in it , I usually drew pictures and then wrote things , my first piece was on A four and I have drawn a table , my mum and myself , I was holding a , I wrote one sentence and it was surprisingly literate this is what I wrote , it is my party and I wait for my friends to come , I did many pieces of work
3 Frightened and starving , the pitifully thin dog desperately needed help — if only they could catch her first .
4 I 'll pick them up , if I do n't pick them up tonight I 'll get them first thing in the morning .
5 Now I must admit my first thoughts of it were it really gets my back up for some reason or other .
6 You 're talking about about two months from now we 'd have our first year anniversary .
7 And I sometimes I used to fry them first .
8 With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts .
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