Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want your parents to come to you first and they want you to come to see them . |
| 2 | It read , simply : ‘ REPORT TO ME FIRST THING — HAYMAN . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Then you should have come to me first . |
| 4 | ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out . |
| 5 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 6 | It occurred to me first that she was playing some dangerous role — as in her old undercover days — perhaps trying to gain some sort of information or advantage . |
| 7 | I , I 'll speak to them first and I 'll , I 'll er when , when , when you come back with some details I , I 'll let you know then . |
| 8 | listen to it first and see what you think . |
| 9 | ‘ You came to me first ? ’ |
| 10 | She would have to listen to him first . |
| 11 | He said I was to talk to you first . |
| 12 | He says he needs to talk to you first . |
| 13 | But we 're going to talk to you first , and then you can start putting it behind you . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , but I want to talk to you first . ’ |
| 15 | On the spur of the moment he said : ‘ I would like to talk to you first . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I want to talk to you first , about leaving here tomorrow . ’ |
| 17 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 18 | Well they wo n't give him it straight away , they 'll see to you first . |
| 19 | ‘ Right , I 'll see to it first thing . ’ |
| 20 | Whereas Goneril and Regan had been shown to us first in disguise , and then in reality , Edmund begins in reality , and only adopts disguise when his father enters . |
| 21 | If the police get to him first , he 'll be put away for life . ’ |
| 22 | And the dad of the wo woman says not if I get to him first . |
| 23 | ‘ She says he 'll try to kill you unless one of us gets to him first . ’ |
| 24 | It was Barney who returned to it first , dribbling cream into his coffee and watching it swirl into a spiral on the surface . |
| 25 | His normal hygiene practices were established by the nurse who talked to him first and he was encouraged to continue with these . |
| 26 | So , he said , well if you 'd have er spoken to me first |
| 27 | It 's always brought to them first thing in the morning . |
| 28 | So it seems to me first of all that we should maintain a state of military preparedness , not because the Soviet Union is likely to attack us , but , simply because it represents this huge area of instability on our Eastern Frontiers , but I think also we should be more positive , I do n't think we want to do secret deals in C I A style , er , in fact I think we want the maximum of open diplomacy . |
| 29 | He probably knows and can recommend the specialists concerned , but insist that you talk to them first and that any reports are addressed to you ( though copied to the solicitor ) . |
| 30 | That 's why we suggest you talk to us first . |