Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun sg] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think you actually look at the words first or the picture first ? |
| 2 | PETER PEARS began his lifelong association with Benjamin Britten in 1937 , when he and the composer first gave recitals together . |
| 3 | It 's only when you 've put yourself second and the message first that you can get on with the business of communication . |
| 4 | Winston Churchill had welcomed Bonar Law as party leader in 1911 with the reflection that " if ever a national emergency makes party interests fade , we shall find in the Leader of the Opposition one who in no fictitious sense places the country and the Empire first " , a tribute that was certainly justified by Law 's role between 1914 and 1918 . |
| 5 | As we saw earlier , it was out of this primal conflict that human societies and the superego first emerged . |
| 6 | The principal part in the attack was given to General Sir Hubert Gough 's Fifth Army , with one corps of Plumer 's Second Army on its right flank and the French First Army , under General Francois Anthoine , on its left . |
| 7 | Although she 'd protest at the mere notion , she sacrificed a possible future career as a contralto — to put marriage and the family first . |
| 8 | Ca n't I have a wash and a change first , sergeant ? ’ |
| 9 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |