Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court held that the practice of making first offers of work to a selected group of people who had declared themselves available , and the practice of declaring oneself available to ensure that such offers would be made , whilst an arrangement " of mutual advantage " to the parties , was not one involving contractual commitments or mutual obligation . |
| 2 | Try a bit of cancelling first . |
| 3 | It was a case of grabbing first and taking as much as you could before your neighbour pulled the dish away from you . |
| 4 | To those who knew no better , he told a story of having first taken the examinations and done brilliantly . |
| 5 | They always sort of came first , they were the sort of centre of the family and everything rotated round them . |
| 6 | Er he was a delicate baby and I was always the sturdy one and I was always expected to give in to him and sort of coddle him an an he , he , he was always sort of put first . |
| 7 | a mate of mine actually worked out in Russia and he said you know , piece of discussions about when , where the Russian 's sort of appear first and this sort of he said he said erm , this , he said that , that kids running around on the streets of Moscow is actually given a working permit and so he could actual work there and sort of like er |
| 8 | In 1986 and again in 1989 a Heriot 's pupil gained the distinction of coming first in Scotland in the Higher Grade examination . |
| 9 | She also wanted to have a Sunday dinner , whenever possible , in the style of Willis , who followed the bargemen 's custom of serving first sultana pudding with gravy , and then the roast . |
| 10 | They were in the habit of calling first at a petrol station , and using the air line to blow their tyres up really hard . |
| 11 | Mrs Theresa Murphy , the Mayor 's wife , had , by dint of playing first violin in the local amateur orchestra , established herself as one of the cultural leaders of Tollemarche . |
| 12 | Now I had the choice of going first , , so if I choose to go first then you can choose the colours . . |
| 13 | When Tormey cites the art of acting as an example of representational behaviour , he was really talking about the style of acting first attributed to the famous English eighteenth-century actor David Garrick , acting which demanded not the expression of emotion but an accomplished technique by which ‘ natural ’ expressions of real life became distilled on stage by artifice . |
| 14 | Rather does the future have an imperative claim upon the present , alerting all men to the urgency and exclusiveness of seeking first the Kingdom of God . |
| 15 | Dr Coué , who , in the nineteenth century proclaimed the virtue of saying first thing every morning and regularly thereafter that , ‘ Every day , in every way I 'm getting better and better ’ , is enjoying a great revival . |
| 16 | ‘ For anyone who is considering joining the police becoming a Special is an ideal way of getting first hand experience of the job , ’ said SC Barker . |
| 17 | ‘ For anyone who is considering joining the police becoming a Special is an ideal way of getting first hand experience of the job , ’ said SC Barker . |
| 18 | To ask for more for herself and put herself in a position of coming first felt too greedy and dangerous . |
| 19 | ‘ This is a real opportunity to promote the idea of publishing first novels as paperback originals . |
| 20 | When the idea of teleworking first came up , there was a fear of poor pay and long hours , but with this scheme we are looking at proper terms and conditions . |