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 ) . |