Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Certainly not , but he soon will , I promise you , and we shall be down seeing Penver first thing tomorrow morning . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The Prince phoned Garvin first thing this morning . ’ |
| 3 | When James was told that the French navy had beaten the English he commented patriotically , ‘ It is the first time then , ’ while William , as a face-saver , created Herbert first Earl of Torrington . |
| 4 | In the Meer area we , we , we 've built Meer First School into an annexe and we took surplus places out , so we have done something , and he does n't seem to even acknowledge that , which I find concerning . |
| 5 | Parore dropped Lewis first ball , and again before stumps . |
| 6 | The core of the book is an extended essay on the sculptor 's stylistic development , in which the author sees Jacopo first developing under his own father , the goldsmith Piero di Landi , then learning to carve marble under the capomaestro of Lucca Cathedral , Antonio Pardini , during the 1390s . |
| 7 | I 'll ring Geoffrey first thing to see if he 's free for a chat . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Ride Drifter first lot as usual . ’ |
| 9 | However , on all the ballot papers giving Paisley first preference a second preference was in fact shown , and the question is how the transfer of his surplus of 5,626 should be effected . |
| 10 | Requiring 190 to complete their clean sweep , they lost Haynes first ball , bowled off stump by Meyrick Pringle who , along with Tertius Bosch , proceeded unsuccessfully to claim for nine lbw decisions against Simmons and Lara in the first eight overs , some more authentic than others . |
| 11 | Now they are neighbours , with the writer giving Finney first look at his plays . |
| 12 | Now , as a final act of love after 33 years of marriage , he has given Anne first refusal on the property . |
| 13 | In the early years of the twentieth century , hardly anyone surfed Kalahuewehe First Break , off Diamond Head , now known as Outside Castles . |
| 14 | In addition , two agricultural colleges — Seale-Hayne , Devon in association with Plymouth Polytechnic and Harper Adams , Shropshire in association with Wolverhampton Polytechnic now offer CNAA first degree courses in Agriculture and Agricultural Technology respectively . |
| 15 | Once students have completed this part of the course , they will have attained a standard of English which well prepared them to undertake Cambridge First Certificate work . |
| 16 | ‘ See Sanders first thing — he should n't be difficult to find — and get the name of his client . |