Example sentences of "first to get the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First to get the treatment was a rare Staffordshire saltglaze oval soup tureen , cover and stand painted with flowers , butterflies and insects . |
| 2 | First to get the treatment is VTAM version 3 release 4.2 and the multiprotocol transport feature . |
| 3 | With the meticulousness with which he was to become associated on each project , Dustin decided that he had first to get the voice of the 121-year-old man right . |
| 4 | Roberts finished with 10 for 123 , and then watched his colleagues make little attempt at first to get the runs . |
| 5 | Because women 's work is never done , and underpaid , or unpaid , or boring or repetitious and we 're the first to get the sack , and what we look like is more important than what we do , and if we get raped it 's our fault , and if we get bashed we must have provoked it , if we raise our voices we 're nagging bitches , and if we enjoy sex we 're nymphs and if we do n't we 're frigid , and if we love women it 's because we ca n't get a real man , and if we ask our doctor too many questions we 're neurotic and if we expect the community to care for our children we 're selfish , and if we stand up for our rights we 're aggressive and unfeminine , and if we do n't we 're typical weak females , and if we want to get married we 're out to trap a man , and if we do n't we 're unnatural , and because we ca n't get adequate safe contraceptives , but men can walk on the moon , and we ca n't cope or do n't want a pregnancy we 're made to feel guilty about abortion , and for lots and lots of other reasons we 're all part of the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 6 | Matthew Evans , head of publishers Faber and Faber , was the first to get the call . |
| 7 | VTAM MVS/ESA is the first to get the multiprotocol transport treatment |
| 8 | tying them up but when they went out to the end of the estuary that was just a case of get there first to get the job ? |