Example sentences of "[verb] first [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is much casual evidence that , during the stock market crash in October 1987 , the futures market crashed first and then dragged the spot market down . |
| 2 | Less skilled negotiators disagree in the order they think , that is , saying they disagree first and then going on to give reasons . |
| 3 | One might reasonably have expected that the " building " would have come first and then the things it housed . |
| 4 | ‘ I noticed first and then I ran screaming . |
| 5 | ‘ So what happens , does a leg snap first and then it just crumbles ? ’ |
| 6 | Beuno came first and then the laughter . |
| 7 | That was the beginning of a series of small books of prayers spread over the next fifty years , which were prayed first and then made available for others who felt the same spiritual need as myself . |
| 8 | The natural tendency is probably to insert a row , copy it down , insert another row and copy it down , insert a row and copy it down , er , you need to do all your inserting first and then copy your formulae cos otherwise you end up with wrong formulae . |
| 9 | Notice in ( b ) pink was used first and then yellow and finally pale viridian . |
| 10 | It used to be the case that one had to find a property that one wanted to buy first and then apply for a mortgage , but some organisations will now provide a mortgage guarantee document , that is to say an assurance of the amount of money they will lend you , before you start looking for a property . |
| 11 | You you spent first and then |
| 12 | I 'll tell you what it I I want you to do first and then you can write it down . |
| 13 | This very rapid absorption occurs partly because alcohol dies not have to be digested first and partly because a significant amount is absorbed from the stomach . |
| 14 | You get your books to read first and then we 'll er |
| 15 | But normally the information on the recording forms is checked and corrected first and then entered on to computer after the excavation has been completed . |
| 16 | First , there is the risk that a subsequent chargee will be registered first and thus gain priority . |
| 17 | No matter who wins the toss , and on this occasion it was Cambridge , the visitors invariably bat first and virtually as long as they choose . |
| 18 | In the jump-off Ratina went first and faultlessly again , but Beerbaum , without needing to ask the eight-year-old Classic Touch any desperate questions , won by more than three seconds . |
| 19 | If a decision is made to abandon the launch at height , it is safer to release first and then to lower the nose , as this prevents the risk of the cable parachute opening and flying up over the aircraft . |
| 20 | It 's I normally go first and then Foster comes behind me , but I think erm Simpson over hit and was far post , he knocked it back , I had a touch and then just erm slotted her home , which is erm quite erm good . |
| 21 | By dealing with the crisis in prisons by a Bill of this sort rather than dealing first and fundamentally with the overcrowding situation , the Home Secretary is attacking the symptoms , not the causes . |
| 22 | When the trend went into reverse , it was London which fell first and furthest . |
| 23 | Despite the variety and the complexity , the animal work indicates first and foremost that mate choice can be profoundly influenced by early experience . |
| 24 | It is also top-down , in that the entities are identified first and then more and more detail filled in , as where the attributes of the entities are identified . |
| 25 | Semi-industrial units for converting straw to animal feed would be started first and then the calf-rearing would commence . |
| 26 | That it impinged as a call to slaughter first and foremost seems only too clear ; for the first result of the preaching of the crusade was a fearful massacre of the one species of ‘ infidel ’ within easy reach . |
| 27 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
| 28 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 29 | A senior citizen is one who was here before the pill , before television , frozen food , credit card and ballpoint pens , for us timesharing meant togetherness , not computers and a chip meant a piece of wood , hardware meant hardware and software was n't even a word , teenagers never wore slacks , we were before pantyhose , drip-dry clothes , dishwashers , clothes driers and electric blankets , we got married first and then lived together |
| 30 | Alternatively , you can start a discussion by asking someone just beyond the offender to speak first and then go round the meeting leaving him until last . |