Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir : I am writing first to congratulate you all on an excellent magazine , I have been reading Computer magazines for the last 10 years and can honestly say that Practical PC is the most informative and enjoyable one to date . |
| 2 | People going and collecting and I 'm hoping first prize winner 's there . |
| 3 | One with wounds to his leg , I 'm administering first aid ’ |
| 4 | I 'm going first |
| 5 | I 'm going first ! |
| 6 | Michael , I 'm starting first . |
| 7 | I 'm starting first ! |
| 8 | We called him Boy because my elder sister and I were born first and his arrival gave great joy . |
| 9 | I was breathing and I could hear sort of I was thinking first of all it was coming from , you know somewhere outside like somebody |
| 10 | Helpings in most places are pretty large , and if you are having first and second courses , it is very easy to overdo the calorie count . |
| 11 | ‘ Brett , you 're taking first shift , are n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | Now you 'd better get out to where you are going before I change my mind and dash upstairs into Great-gran 's room and tell her where you 're going first , before you join your men pals . |
| 13 | Yeah but it 's , is , you do n't know where you 're going first . |
| 14 | Frank Dick said , ‘ You 're running first leg . |
| 15 | Now I 'd like you to draw those two bearings and find out where L is , this this lighthouse , so tell me what you 're doing first of all . |
| 16 | Second , Mary was there of her own right , and the fact that she is mentioned first probably indicates that she knew the family very well . |
| 17 | From 1905 to 1909 she was employed first by Sidney and Beatrice Webb [ qq.v. ] and then by the royal commission on the poor laws as a research assistant on enquiries into public health , poor-law medical relief , and the treatment of destitute children . |
| 18 | Do you know why Lizzie is bigger than me ? 'Cos she was born first . |
| 19 | ( She was played first by Mozart 's sister-in-law , Josepha . ) |
| 20 | She was educated first at home by governesses and subsequently at Miss Wilson 's Academy in Tenby and Miss Philpott 's Educational Establishment in London . |
| 21 | At the police station , she said , she was told first that she would be charged with assault and then that she would be charged with disorderly behaviour . |
| 22 | But if we demand to be paid for it , if we demand Wages for Housework from the State , we are saying first of all that housework is work … we are saying that we women need money of our own — if we were n't forced to depend on men for money , we would n't have to put their needs before ours , to service them sexually , physically , emotionally … we say TO BRING UP CHILDREN IS WORK and we want a WAGE for all the work we do — whether cleaning offices OR homes , producing electrical parts OR babies . |
| 23 | I think we 're taking first faltering steps in this direction at the moment . |
| 24 | When we 're doing first aid incidents erm the standard thing we 're doing for adults when they 're doing a first aid exam is we 'll give present them with a casualty with perhaps a cut hand or something like that and they 'll actually have a black eye . |
| 25 | Just let's think what we 're doing first . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're going first to some friends of mine — Filippo and Agnese . |
| 27 | We were flying first to Nassau where the senator was to be guest of honour at an American Embassy reception for senior officers of the naval units taking part in Exercise Stingray , and after Nassau the Maggot and I would fly on to Grand Bahama where he lived and where Wavebreaker was docked . |
| 28 | We were entertained first by a pair of talented young men playing two grand pianos . |
| 29 | Since behavioural methods are central to psychobiology they are tackled first in this chapter . |
| 30 | But it is unwise to assume that parents will inevitably pose a problem when they are placed first . |