Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Playing in the biggest entry of the day in Grade Three , Ballynahinch Pipe Band with Pipe Major Ian Jess , had 2 3/4 points to spare to take first place . |
| 2 | Sheffield , Cambridge , Liverpool and London , appear to prefer to publish first in this Journal . |
| 3 | Sheffield , Cambridge , Liverpool and London , appear to prefer to publish first in this Journal . |
| 4 | Well daddy has got to say first ai n't he |
| 5 | ‘ Do you think I 'd have bothered to knock first , if I were ? ’ |
| 6 | Hunting for diamonds on a fastflowing river may be a rewarding pastime , but he might have learned to swim first ! |
| 7 | No I 've got to put first name |
| 8 | But what we 've got to decide first is , whether we 're gon na do it and if so at what level ? |
| 9 | That 's what I say , we 've go , we 've got to go first time out next week |
| 10 | He said that 's what you 've got to do first thing Monday morning , find out where that car is , he said , and then you want half the money |
| 11 | we are , we are encouraging the rich peasant , I mean we want you to settle down and become rich and , although we have this ultimate aim of socialization , collectivization , we 've got to industrialize first and that , that is a long time off . |
| 12 | If they had bothered to think first , and read Raymond Plant 's report , the answer is there . |
| 13 | She had gone to work first for a radical magazine , perched in a cramped office behind Kings Cross . |
| 14 | 169 all out gave West Indies a win by an innings and 79 runs , the first time they had beaten England by an innings at home since 1934–5 ; by coincidence , it was the first time an England captain had chosen to field first in the Caribbean since Wyatt did in the same series . |
| 15 | If you love someone and wan na be with them , that 's got to come first . ’ |
| 16 | And this lot have got to go first have n't they ? |