Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jukeboxes as we know them today first showed up in the 1940s . |
| 32 | I think that there is a good chance that the study of the early universe and the requirements of mathematical consistency will lead us to a complete unified theory within the lifetime of some of us who are around today , always presuming we do n't blow ourselves up first . |
| 33 | Well not always , if you get yours in first . |
| 34 | ‘ We 'll drop you off first , ’ Desmond suggested . |
| 35 | Yes please you got ta meet him somewhere first , provided |
| 36 | ‘ An alternative theory is that the killer knocked him out first , then went into the washroom to strip and came back for the final throat-cutting before Berowne had a chance to come round . |
| 37 | Oldfield hammering it on Moores beats Speedy to it and Chettle gets it forward first time . |
| 38 | Remember you heard it here first : - ) . |
| 39 | Remember , you heard it here first ! |
| 40 | You heard it here first ! ! ! |
| 41 | One , then another , another — he placed them reverently first upon one arm , then the other . |
| 42 | Move exhausted pot roses outdoors , hardening them off first in cold seasons , and plunge the pots in the ground . |
| 43 | we 're just leaving it so we sort ourselves out first on , on how |
| 44 | I 'll get in touch with the agriculture people and get them to send someone out first thing tomorrow . ’ |
| 45 | Quiss had found himself there first , and after a little while , when he realised that there was no night and day , just the one flat , monotone light always there beyond the windows , he had started to keep a tally of the number of times he slept . |
| 46 | Mrs Fields said , ‘ As by some miracle the A.R.R. Unit is empty , I 'll take you there first . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ Wrote a snotty letter to the poor chap at Kenwards — I rang him up first , of course , he was embarrassed all over again — asking him to ask his client to leave mine alone . |
| 48 | We used to get a collar of rope , manilla rope , put it on to a truck and used to stretch it out first and then cut off the lengths . |
| 49 | Instead of letting me try it on first . |
| 50 | But , unlike buying a car or new shoes , we do n't try it out first . |
| 51 | It was primarily management 's responsibility to help workers to do their jobs in a high-quality way ( " doing it right first time " ) , by identifying the sources of error and planning the production process to prevent their occurence. 7 Constant striving for improvement : TQM is a never-ending struggle to an unattainable goal . |
| 52 | Sort it out first . |
| 53 | She 'd probably die of pneumonia , if Nathan did n't throw her overboard first . |
| 54 | He summoned Chamberlain to see him again first thing the next morning and told him his new plan . |
| 55 | I got him out first ball . |
| 56 | The girls declined their gentlemanly offer to allow them over first , realising that once at the top , the boys would have a beautiful view of their unmentionables . |
| 57 | This section is for permanent residents ; I brought you here first because if it had got out that you had been here and had n't seen this lot my life would n't have been worth living . |
| 58 | Brom not Brompton Barracks , Barracks , and I saw him there first of all and then he told me they were going send me to Tidworth . |
| 59 | Can I help you ? ’ goes the traditional but intimidating greeting , as a New Kid creeps humbly into NME 's reception area , taking his/her very first steps into that mythical epicentre of Rock Wordage , that hallowed den of sex , filth , depravity , drug babble and staplers . |
| 60 | Clean it out first . |