Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come on leave first , so I was first to return . |
| 2 | Arrests were made as Earth First ! members adopted the group 's traditional tactics of direct action by chaining themselves to bulldozers . |
| 3 | Well look back to the factors needed for life first of all . |
| 4 | ‘ If I have n't died of hunger first , ’ she said with asperity . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps I should have got in touch first ? ’ |
| 6 | To water hanging baskets and containers with the drips and spills , try freezing plastic bottles filled with water first . |
| 7 | Lesley does n't really judge herself as a musician anyway , but was quite happy to be judged as woman first because she is ‘ immensely proud ’ of her gender . |
| 8 | These will include the relative gravity of the offences alleged in the two sets of proceedings ; the degree of connection , on facts or law , between them ; the degree of prejudice which the defendant may suffer , in the shape of adverse publicity or in other respects , if the lesser matters are brought to trial first ; the likely time-spans of the two sets of proceedings ; the possibility of hardship to the defendant in being required to divert attention and resources to the defence of the lesser charges whilst the graver are in preparation ; the risk that if the lesser charges are postponed the lapse of time may render a fair trial of them more difficult ; the desirability in the public interest of ensuring that charges properly brought are pressed to a conclusion . |
| 9 | Finally , the Bishop had been appointed without being first approached . |
| 10 | A key problem is getting paperback originals reviewed in the quality press , the attention of which has traditionally been directed towards hardback first editions . |
| 11 | Of course , there is the current international season to be taken into account first , starting against Scotland at Eglinton next month , but the major attention focuses on developing a winning combination for that all-important sojourn to Kenya . |
| 12 | Most professionals working with the deaf have had the experience of receiving letters from deaf people which need to be signed in BSL first before the meaning is apparent . |
| 13 | just by way of comparison for rough guidance that there is a regulation or or something like that which says , if I remember rightly , that erm er payments must not be made for either services or goods not supplied above a figure of two thousand pounds without er being taken to committee first . |
| 14 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 15 | Unfortunately , for the really creative user , all this requires programming knowledge and ca n't be created on paper first and loaded in as a completed work . |
| 16 | The concept ca n't be created on paper first and then loaded into the computer as a completed work . |
| 17 | During the strike , the policy was justified by reference first to a section in the Road Traffic Act 1972 which allows a police officer in uniform to stop vehicles and secondly to the common law breach of the peace power . |