Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Out of the question or not , lad , I checked up first thing . |
| 2 | Well I was saying to Daddy actually I it would be better if I got up first and went in the bathroom . |
| 3 | Only last night I got here first |
| 4 | I got there first , ordered a Scotch , and opened the evening paper that I 'd bought on the way . |
| 5 | Ah well I got there first ! |
| 6 | I came here first in 1948 — the year the Nationalist Party took over power from General Smuts ( they have held it ever since ) . |
| 7 | That 's why I came here first . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ No , I came here first . |
| 9 | In a word , when I came thither first there was about one family in a street that worshipped God and called on His name , and when I came away there was not passed one family in the side of a street that did not so , and that did not , by professing serious godliness , give us hopes of their sincerity . |
| 10 | ‘ It would be much easier if I went in first and then you could push me up , ’ said Fenella . |
| 11 | I went in first and all I saw was standard classroom with a blackboard down one wall , two lines of plain tables and some wooden chairs . |
| 12 | As I sat there first at EDC [ Economic Development Committee ] and then at Home Affairs , I reflected on the way that Cabinet Committees as well as the Cabinet itself are becoming part of the dignified element of the English constitution . |
| 13 | I would have done it if I had had the chance , but somebody got there first . |
| 14 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 15 | ‘ Good job you got there first . |
| 16 | I think I did get a letter from you in Danu when you got back first all those years ago , I remember I gave the stamps to my nephew . |
| 17 | Her pride made her speak as formally as he did and always be the one who moved away first . |
| 18 | So did you do any singing when you came here first ? |
| 19 | It was she who turned away first and when she rested her arm against the wall to support the linen whilst she put the key in the lock , he came forward , saying eagerly , ‘ Let me . ’ |
| 20 | Who went in first ? |
| 21 | I 've seen you know the , the coat she brought home first of all ? |
| 22 | Only she looked up first into his eyes , and again saw that his eyes were gentle . |
| 23 | She looked away first , and pawed through the wicker basket , looking for something to fill the space between them . |
| 24 | She looked away first , her heart pounding . |
| 25 | That i it would be the people who stood up first and accused the landlords and took the lead in the settling accounts procedure , they were more likely to be able to , to get more in the way of than anybody else , that they would get more land , more erm better quality land the animals , implements etcetera and those sort of , th those peasants who were taking the lead were actually members of the Party were they ? |
| 26 | If you feel , having read this , that you could handle the demands of a job that entails sinking your toes into plus , deep-pile carpet , lounging back in a comfy armchair sipping coffee whilst viewing Edinburgh 's citizens going about their lawful occasions and being paid for the privilege , forget it — we got here first . |
| 27 | It also seems we got there first . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ This is where we came in first time round , Leonora . |
| 29 | But which one came home first ? |
| 30 | Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old . |