Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not hard to see how permission can be conceived as something which throws the action permitted into the future : one generally gets permission first and then performs the action permitted after . |
| 2 | Three winners who always put safety first |
| 3 | A Board of Trade requirement that the engine would always operate chimney first was disobeyed from the early days . |
| 4 | In losing Law the party had lost a conciliator ; in electing Austen it had gained an inflexible leader who would not always put party first . |
| 5 | but finds they usually need persuasion first , |
| 6 | Therefore any adjustment which comes about as a result of an increase in the money supply will probably take place first of all through purchases of short-term , highly liquid financial assets such as Treasury bills and bank bills . |
| 7 | He tripped on his staff and nearly pitched head first into the water . |
| 8 | And that brings us to Foodies — which is where the plebs and the klutzes really fall head first into their shortcrust . |
| 9 | She never minds being first out of a game and never winning . |