Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the championship leader , Scotland 's Allan McNish , only six seconds behind in second place , the Australian must finish either first , or second plus the fastest lap , in the final round at Thruxton next week to have any hope of the championship . |
| 2 | The teacher should plan carefully first to create dramatic tension , and then to use it productively . |
| 3 | Mijnheer sketched a mocking courtesy , indicating that she should go inside first . |
| 4 | I decided that we should come here first — to the house that was my parents ’ summer retreat , near that of my aunt , uncle and cousin . |
| 5 | ‘ County ambulances are on their way , but we 'll do any first aid we can . ’ |
| 6 | He 'll go there first , I expect , and when he has eaten and rested , he 'll see Arghatun and Wotai . |
| 7 | But he might get there first . |
| 8 | No , he 'll come here first all right . ’ |
| 9 | " We 'll start upstairs first and then you can see the lay-out . " |
| 10 | Well can I say that er if I might say so first of all , I think that the , the antipathy that existed for a period actually came more from the workshop , rather than the management . |
| 11 | We may say , ’ Eat your heart out ’ to Norman , to Peter , to William , to Austin and to others , if I may use just first names . |
| 12 | ‘ I told her that we 'd ring again first thing tomorrow morning . |
| 13 | He 'd come here first and found he could n't get in . |
| 14 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 15 | ‘ When I used to come here first of all I did n't know everybody like now . |
| 16 | We begin eighteen-ninety-eight in the most wonderful , wonderful manner — Joszef 's second cousin , he 's in Boston and we shall go there first . |
| 17 | Rufus told himself now was no time to go hunting for libraries , he would go home first . |
| 18 | Thieves are n't stupid — they will look there first . |
| 19 | The problem with two men living here is I do n't know who will come home first . |