Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it was the realisation of his disability that decided the man to go for him first . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll have to go through me first , ’ warned fitzAlan , his voice low with menace . |
| 3 | And I was trying to , gon na move the was gon na discuss with you first , but Croydon see , so they 're actually not Croydon Rank , they 're Croydon , but anyway |
| 4 | You want your parents to come to you first and they want you to come to see them . |
| 5 | It read , simply : ‘ REPORT TO ME FIRST THING — HAYMAN . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Then you should have come to me first . |
| 7 | ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out . |
| 8 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 9 | It occurred to me first that she was playing some dangerous role — as in her old undercover days — perhaps trying to gain some sort of information or advantage . |
| 10 | The apple as symbol is all around us but most of us would still think of it first as a tasty snack . |
| 11 | Mm yes , let's see what you can do for me first . |
| 12 | What do I do with it first of all ? |
| 13 | I , I 'll speak to them first and I 'll , I 'll er when , when , when you come back with some details I , I 'll let you know then . |
| 14 | listen to it first and see what you think . |
| 15 | ‘ You came to me first ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ In Rome , I 'll be going out to win but I 'm looking on it first and foremost as the chance to get the feel of the hurdles again . ’ |
| 17 | She would have to listen to him first . |
| 18 | He said I was to talk to you first . |
| 19 | He says he needs to talk to you first . |
| 20 | But we 're going to talk to you first , and then you can start putting it behind you . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , but I want to talk to you first . ’ |
| 22 | On the spur of the moment he said : ‘ I would like to talk to you first . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I want to talk to you first , about leaving here tomorrow . ’ |
| 24 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 25 | So we 're looking at it first , I I think in the end , there are schemes that we 've got to put on to the back burner , or the , until such times Lincoln develops further , and there is further development . |
| 26 | For this reason , it is better to refer at some stage to the primary source of an idea , even if you came across it first in a secondary source . |
| 27 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
| 28 | Some ideas just seem so good , you ca n't understand why on one else thought of them first . |
| 29 | When it launched a complete make-up range last autumn , it introduced ‘ Mirror Image Consultation ’ , a new way of selling which is so simple that all the other companies were left wondering why they had n't thought of it first . |
| 30 | It is clear from this that for Rolle prayer was the most important exercise by which the reality of faith is realised , which is why he deals with it first after the section on the necessity for patience in adversity : Prayer is the means by which the transforming dynamic of the love of God is accessed in the innermost marrow ( " inhirliest mergh " ) of our hearts ( 7.118.28 ) and labour becomes light ( 11.123.30 ) . |