Example sentences of "[noun sg] we [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | To examine the tactics of talk we need first to consider … |
| 2 | In this chapter we show first how the age structure of Britain 's population has changed during the twentieth century , and how it is likely to change in the century 's final years and beyond . |
| 3 | To understand the precise position of the movies in this whole process we need first to look more closely at that activity which , at least superficially , seemed to be the direct ancestor of the cinema , that is music-hall or vaudeville . |
| 4 | Both of them are ‘ such knowledge of effects or appearances , as we acquire by true ratiocination from the knowledge we have first of their causes or generations : And again , of such causes or generations as may be from knowing first their effects . ’ |
| 5 | In the block we start running from just in front of the ladder , but on the night we 've first of all got to run from the block to the wire , which is twenty yards away in the nearest place and then put the ladder up . |
| 6 | In order to decide what to include in the questionnaire we drew first of all on issues which had emerged in the two case studies . |
| 7 | Left to right on the front panel we see first the input section , with two sockets : one for passive and one for active basses . |