Example sentences of "but [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but to come back to the first criterion which says avoid the greenbelt , I know exactly what you mean when you say avoid the greenbelt , but if in the context of the wording before that where it says to be located beyond the outer boundary of the York greenbelt , do you need to have criterion one ? |
| 2 | He made a show of pursuit , but gave up at the first intersection , returning to Jude breathless . |
| 3 | The " good years " of textile out-workers , for example , began before the war but lasted only over the first half of it . |
| 4 | The findings were drawn from the study of both cohorts but relate only to the first year of the course . |
| 5 | I had no idea of doing anything else but study there for the first three years after school , for which my hardworking and frugal parents had saved enough money . |