Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] first [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me first explain Charles Howard . |
| 2 | But let me first applaud the coupling : it works like a charm . |
| 3 | Let me first ask your forbearance . |
| 4 | Let me first say that rumour and gossip abound , many shadows but so far very little substance . |
| 5 | ‘ . When a man says he will follow him ‘ but let me first say farewell to those at my home ’ , Jesus reprimands him , and when a woman cries out ‘ Blessed is the womb that bore you , and the breasts that you sucked ’ , he replies ‘ Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God ’ . |
| 6 | I shall be illustrating each of these four views of style with one of my four examples of modern stylistics , but let me first say exactly what my headings mean . |
| 7 | Let me first introduce you to my text : 2 Corinthians 6.2 . |
| 8 | Let me first thank you for your help , and assure you that you need have no fear . ’ |
| 9 | Let us first offer some more phrases sharing the adjective of the last example in ( 4 ) . |
| 10 | We may readily show that the matrix X is non-singular. for if it is not , let us first suppose it to be simply degenerate . |
| 11 | Let us first spell out what the theories underlying each of the two positions are saying . |
| 12 | But let us first examine their beliefs . |
| 13 | Let us first examine the straight Gaussian solution . |
| 14 | Well , let us first examine some examples . |
| 15 | Following Fillmore ( 1971b ) , let us first distinguish two kinds of deictic usage , namely gestural usage and symbolic usage . |
| 16 | Instead of calculating the electric field directly from the charge distribution let us first determine the potential and obtain the electric field by differentiation . |
| 17 | Let us first work out the force upon a current element of length ds in the presence of a flux density B. According to eqn ( 3.7 ) the force on a point charge q is |
| 18 | For simplicity , let us first discuss the undamped oscillations of a mechanical system having n degrees of freedom , the equations of motion of which have been derived by Lagrangian methods from energy considerations ; they will appear , in the usual notation of dynamics , as unc Here x is the column of coordinates ; in what follows , we assume the last element x to be non-nodal ( if it is not , it can be made so by rewriting the equations in a different order ) . |
| 19 | Before returning to these implicatures in the next section , let us first illustrate the other major kind of implicatures that Grice had in mind . |
| 20 | Let us first describe the gas and its motions . |
| 21 | Let us first take a static one-dimensional magnetic vector field pointing in the z direction and varying sinusoidally in the y direction as |
| 22 | Let us first try to prove something that you have come across in school , Coulomb 's law . |
| 23 | In order that we can appreciate the result ( and , ultimately , its limitations ) , let us first summarize the relationship between the pieces . |
| 24 | Let us first consider the ‘ commercial ’ smallholder for whom money-making is the overriding aim . |
| 25 | Let us first consider a hypothetical example drawn from the earlier discussion of the causes of absenteeism . |
| 26 | Before I go on to talk about the diet and overweight issue let us first consider the other factors that can cause heart disease . |
| 27 | Before considering the shape of the project in the schools themselves , let us first consider the way in which the project as a whole was organised and coordinated . |
| 28 | A bit more will be said of particular features of the metalinguistic and possible-worlds proposals , but let us first consider something common to both of them and indeed to other proposals . |
| 29 | We shall inquire presently whether we should ask informants what things mean ; let us first consider whether words are the most appropriate items of language on which to elicit judgement . |
| 30 | Let us first consider the social contract according to the left . |