Example sentences of "[verb] first [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the architects of the president 's legislative strategy , Baker and Friedersdorf moved first to gain control of the legislative agenda . |
| 2 | All the sound and fury of the past few days has been a desperate diversion designed first to draw attention away from the unemployment figures , the inflation figures , and the figures for businesses closed and homes repossessed ; and , secondly , to draw attention away from what the Labour party is actually saying , and for the simplest of all reasons — they know it makes sense . |
| 3 | We propose first to expand credit in order to create demand . |
| 4 | it was built first to show pictures , then turned into a dance hall . |
| 5 | And what the hell had happened when he 'd first met Rohmer ? |
| 6 | Charles thought back to when he 'd first met Bernard in Cardiff — a gauche , rather insecure young man with a slight stammer . |
| 7 | It was at Thurso in Scotland that I 'd first seen surfers riding tubes . |
| 8 | So , when he 'd first laid eyes on Judith — she 'd been sitting behind a desk at his accountant 's offices , her beauty all the more luminous for its drab setting — his first thought was : I want this woman ; his second : she wo n't want me . |
| 9 | Somehow she doubted whether sharing with Sandra the fact that she already did regret the day she 'd first laid eyes on Matthew would be helpful to anyone . |
| 10 | Michael Lee was well used to Katherine 's preference for darkened rooms ; when had had first started work for her , he had done some research and discovered that when she had operated in Dublin , she had never appeared in public during the daylight hours and always met her business associates in darkened rooms , where she was known only as Madam Kitten . |
| 11 | For instance , if workers and their leaders regard an all-out strike as a measure of last resort , they may wish first to test management 's resolve with less drastic action such as an overtime ban , or with subtle forms of non-cooperation which affect output and quality . |
| 12 | A party seeking to recover his property , which may be held , for example , by someone who has done work on it , will have first to issue proceedings , and if it appears that a lien arises , the court may order that the party seeking to recover may pay into court , to abide the event , the amount in respect of which the security is claimed together with such further sum by way of interest and costs as the court directs , and upon such payment , the property be given up . |
| 13 | It is interesting that he should have first obtained benefices in the north ; in the late thirteenth century very many royal clerks were beneficed in the province of York , and it is clear that he was in the king 's service by 1262 , acting as a proctor for Henry III in the French court . |
| 14 | He conferred with Willys , who duly informed Thurloe of his whereabouts , having first warned Ormonde to change his lodgings , so enabling him to keep one jump ahead of the pursuit . |
| 15 | You may not accept invitations to speak on TV or radio programmes , participate in surveys or contribute to publications which might include commenting on the work of the ES or other Government Departments without having first gained permission from your manager . |
| 16 | You may not accept invitations to speak on TV or radio programmes , participate in surveys or contribute to publications which might include commenting on the work of the ES or other Government Departments without having first gained permission from your manager . |
| 17 | Four years later , in October 1786 , the Revd Treadway Nash DD FSA went along to Sudeley Castle in the company of the Hon. John Sommers Cox and a Mr John Skipp of Ledbury to examine the coffin , having first obtained leave of the owner , Lord Rivers . |
| 18 | This comic expansiveness even leads Robbins to insert a chapter ( 111a ) which he then renders as a no-go area , having first defined poetry as an ‘ intensification or illumination of common objects and everyday events ’ : |
| 19 | This grows everywhere on muddy farm tracks , having first invaded Britain from Asia about 200 years ago . |
| 20 | The piece begins with the horn solo given in Example 92 : Having first used fourths melodically , Schoenberg then combines them vertically , as harmony . |
| 21 | He worked on the staff of the Law Society from 1958 to 1964 , having first taken articles with Maxwell Batley & Co , in London . |
| 22 | Lucy Maycock trained at RADA , having first read English at Oxford , where she took part in many OUDS production , playing Juliet , Kate in The Taming of the Shrew and Charlotte Corday in The Marat/Sade . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the government filed a law suit against the Westinghouse Corporation claiming that the latter had built a defective 620-MW generating plant in Bataan after having first offered commission to the previous government in order to win the contract . |
| 24 | When the battery is connected , all inputs and outputs first assume Logic 0 . |
| 25 | The two friends set out on their meandering though scenic way through Somerset intending first to visit George Burnett at his family home in Huntspill . |
| 26 | He and Paddy Mayne , taking nine men with them , would leave first to attack Sirte and Tamit . |
| 27 | If visiting someone with hearing loss write first giving date , time and reason for visit , arrive punctually . |
| 28 | In assessing the situation , and planning her interaction , the social worker aimed first to get Mrs R. to modify her behaviour , without success . |
| 29 | Three main questions were therefore addressed : did non-fundholders reduce their rate of referral outside the boundaries of their local district health authority ? did first wave fundholders reduce their referral rates to NHS outpatient clinics and , if so , which specialties and which patients were affected ? did the proportion of patients referred by fundholders to private clinics increase and how many private referrals were paid for out of the NHS budget ? |
| 30 | Places are allocated on a strictly first come first served basis , and are limited to a maximum of 16 places , some of which are already allocated . |