Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to me first that she was playing some dangerous role — as in her old undercover days — perhaps trying to gain some sort of information or advantage . |
| 2 | ‘ You came to me first ? ’ |
| 3 | For this reason , it is better to refer at some stage to the primary source of an idea , even if you came across it first in a secondary source . |
| 4 | Only too , god if I lived with him first , I would never of married him , no , no , no way |
| 5 | but it was one man and they stuck to him , and they , they lived with them first and then they married . |
| 6 | It was Barney who returned to it first , dribbling cream into his coffee and watching it swirl into a spiral on the surface . |
| 7 | His normal hygiene practices were established by the nurse who talked to him first and he was encouraged to continue with these . |
| 8 | Unless the Grand Army got to him first . |
| 9 | Southey looked for him first at the Salutation and Cat in Newgate Street , where the landlord had given Coleridge free quarters because his conversation was so good for trade . |
| 10 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 11 | Of course , you are likely to get some people who say that they thought of it first . |
| 12 | Look who thought of it first |
| 13 | You know : ‘ I thought of it first . ’ |
| 14 | She thought of it first when she spent her two nights on the Embankment , which was littered as soon as dark fell with sad , wild men and women stuffing bread into their mouths out of brown paper bags or staring at the barges on the river . |
| 15 | I went to him first . |
| 16 | I went to you first because you have known him who is from the beginning . |
| 17 | Nick had a wart and he spat on it first thing every morning and by the end of the week it was gone . ’ |
| 18 | Trainer David Elsworth said : ‘ He won for me first time last season and perhaps he is a horse who does n't want running too often . ’ |
| 19 | And erm Claire spoke to him first of all , and we decided to pull over and talk to this chap cos he was going on and on , and I said to her |
| 20 | But then the lady came back on again — you know , the one who spoke to me first — and she said ‘ Thank you very much , ’ and she told me they were going to send me a prize of — wait for it — 5 . |
| 21 | I warmed to it first of all because , like the Eggle New York elsewhere in this issue , it obviously is n't trying to be anything else ; it can stand on its own merits without any need for the usual identikit comparisons . |
| 22 | ‘ So he shot at you first ? ’ the Colonel enquired , trying to get the whole picture straight to his satisfaction . |