Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I woke feeling good , eager to get back to the Hall , but I wrote down the dream first , thinking I would tell it to Edward . |
| 2 | Opting to track down the garage first , Fabia crossed her fingers , and decided to enlist the help of the pleasant man on Reception . |
| 3 | The three possibilities are as mentioned earlier , but only the cable first two can accept a spur cable . |
| 4 | Just the faults first and then we 'll put the what it should |
| 5 | Now I may not remember always the make first glance off unless I look at it . |
| 6 | If that had n't worked I 'd have tried something else , but , rather to my surprise , you snapped up the bait first time … ’ |
| 7 | You have to build up the excitement first . |
| 8 | Lawyer took up the pen first , followed by Old Looking Glass , Old Joseph , Old James and Timothy , until fifty-eight Nez Perce chiefs were recorded . |
| 9 | On the way back , the coachman took advantage of me , tying up the horses first . |
| 10 | Treasury spokesman Alan Beith told the Tories : ‘ Go , but clear up the mess first . ’ |
| 11 | She had decided it ought n't to be too difficult to slip into the stables and up the ladder first , but this time she did n't even reach the water pail . |
| 12 | You blow up the tower first . |
| 13 | ‘ Take out the lorry first ? ’ offered Joe Perry . |
| 14 | ‘ And that would go against the grain , would n't it … to do anything without working out the odds first ? ’ |
| 15 | The Dell 320SLi Notebook is generally an excellent machine , but if you 're thinking of buying one , check out the screen first to make sure you can live with it . |
| 16 | ‘ And are n't I the one forever telling people to find out the facts first ? |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll take out the battery first . |
| 18 | Matthew is extending here the theme first highlighted in his account of the calming of the storm . |
| 19 | The collapse of Taurus will also give revenue an unexpected bonus as the scrapping of stamp duty on share dealings will be postponed , while Government borrowing looks as if it may not be spiralling out of control at quite the rate first feared . |
| 20 | There the caterpillar first cuts all the leaf veins leading back to the main stalk before settling in for a dinner which it hopes can not then be communicated to the neighbouring leaves . |
| 21 | It is not an adequate defence of the inductivist position to point out that parents and teachers select a set of red objects when teaching children to understand the concept ‘ red ’ , for we are interested in how the concept first acquired its meaning . |
| 22 | Wood dyes are best applied with a cloth , because if applied with a brush , there will be dark areas where the brush first touches the wood . |
| 23 | It followed the line of the narrow belt of Purbeck ‘ marble ’ to Peveril , where the Romans first used it for monuments such as the inscribed memorials discovered at Silchester and Colchester . |
| 24 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |
| 25 | The record of the health service is improving dramatically and waiting lists are now very much shorter than they were when the Government first took office . |
| 26 | Squash at Harlow Sportcentre has moved from strength to strength , starting with just two courts when the centre first opened . |
| 27 | He told delegates he believed the case for strong trade unions was as compelling now as it was when the TUC first met 125 years ago , ‘ or ever has been in the history of our country . ’ |
| 28 | Indeed it has been postulated that the true process of recovery dates from when the sufferer first recognises that prhaps all is not in perfect control . |
| 29 | Mr De Haan said a £3 a share offer would represent a 25 per cent compound annual growth for investors who had bought shares when the company first came to the stock market . |
| 30 | The per capita residential floor space in urban China was less in 1980 than in 1949 when the communists first took control . |