Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv prt] first " in BNC.

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1 In a multi-electron atom , the lowest energy shells fill up first .
2 I opted for the neckband , as I usually do , because I like to do these double , so if the front bands go on first I have to do two buttonholes on the double fabric of the neckband .
3 DEC AND THE MUSEE D'ORSAY IN PARIS SHOW OFF FIRST FRUITS OF THEIR COLLABORATION — BUT WHERE TO NOW ?
4 Th'best go down first and catch his legs when I 've helped him on to the ladder , ’ Jess told Hawkins .
5 Mother , father and six children set off first by train in open cattle trucks .
6 Objectively , it is true that Okapi nearly always retrieves as much as or more than LIBERTAS , but LIBERTAS sometimes outputs records in a more sensible order , keeping editions of the same work together and taking word adjacency into account in the weighting procedure ( so that records containing the actual search statement come out first ) .
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