Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which do you want to comment on first ? |
| 2 | It is this aspect of the craft that I want to look at first this month . |
| 3 | We want to get in first , ’ said a senior Government source . |
| 4 | However , I propose to begin by first exploring what might be called the " reductivist strategy " . |
| 5 | Now is , is there anyone else you will need to speak to first before you can erm actually go ahead with this ? |
| 6 | When Van Cheele got to London , Cunningham did not want to talk at first . |
| 7 | Forged into an irresistible revolutionary force by its vanguard party , the proletariat was destined to carry through first the bourgeois-democratic revolution and then the socialist revolution . |
| 8 | The fact that timing of the first births is closely related to age at first marriage or union is documented in Fig 1 . |
| 9 | Mr Croydon was right , she must open her own shop , have shoes made to order at first and then perhaps import goods from the English shoemakers such as Mr Clark of Somerset . |
| 10 | The women begin to gather at first light . |
| 11 | Two or three specific problem areas can be identified with the parents that they would like to work on first . |
| 12 | Now the one we are going to talk about first of all is the too little sugar where your person has been stabilized and they 're taking insulin injections . |
| 13 | Who 's going to get in first and who 's going to get in later ? |
| 14 | Alternatively one party may be arguing for a significant change or development in the law , and might actually be expecting to lose at first instance . |
| 15 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 16 | Its management decided to start from first principles by developing critical success factors . |
| 17 | She twigged what I was driving at … that I suspected Alain had been murdered … and decided to get in first to throw me off the scent . |
| 18 | As part of the move towards a single grade of nurse , enrolled nurses who wish and are able , are to be encouraged to convert to first level nurse status by way of a conversion course or some other approved means of study and assessment of competence . |
| 19 | If the quail have been reared with siblings , both sexes prefer to mate with first cousins . |
| 20 | On reaching Port Said , however , the captain declared that Annesley would have to be more respectably attired if he wished to continue in first class . |
| 21 | He also looked likely to join Sheffield Wednesday at one stage but in the end had to settle for First Division Newcastle . |
| 22 | Another problem which owners may fail to appreciate at first is that when a dog is in pain , it may bite unexpectedly , even though the cause of the pain is not immediately obvious . |
| 23 | Rawlinson wished to attack at first light , or even earlier ; the French insisted on waiting until daylight so that they might gauge the effect of their all-night artillery fire . |
| 24 | Realising that the take-off would involve an element of risk , the Nimbus pilot had , in fact , refused to go at first , and had asked for the K8 to be moved . |
| 25 | Well hm you can see that er , members are also very concerned about it and er we 've er , i there are external circumstances that you know , we have to look into first . |
| 26 | rate you have to add at first , you can drink it while it 's fermenting , it 's quite a refreshing drink a bit tart to my taste but when it ferments out it becomes er a liquor called Arak which is their version of . |
| 27 | Most people understand the need to express , but not what you have to take in first . |
| 28 | But erm the logistics costs are made up from the costs of procuring spares and support equipment largely and er for an aircraft such as this , the amount of equipment required to operate at first line is very low indeed . |