Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gateshead will certainly be looking to finish first North-East team , avenging their defeats by Sunderland and Morpeth , who finished second and third in the Northerns . |
| 2 | I suggested it to Gunther and he agreed , wanting to have first viewing . |
| 3 | And , anyway , I need some sleep if I 'm going to leave first thing in the morning . |
| 4 | The last stretch is down a narrow lane bordered by woods and lined with horse boxes , cars and spectators , the latter all striving to catch first sight of the leading riders coming at full gallop . |
| 5 | And I think he can be regarded as having had first hand and very real experience of the problems of developing erm employment uses in the Greater York area . |
| 6 | Having administered first aid immediately , the next priority is to minimise further damage . |
| 7 | The feeling was that Richards should have declared before he did as the last hour 's batting produced few runs , but when England set about playing out time , Larkins , having gone first ball in the first innings , lasted only one more this time . |
| 8 | There was initiated at Harvard a practice of dealers taking turns first thing in the morning , to deliver a little speech to the rest of the dealing room about the latest financial news . |
| 9 | We do n't cater to a large number of students intending to do first school work , it 's , our main interest has been in the middle and secondary school areas . |
| 10 | There is something a little distasteful about the head of the biggest international refugee organisation preferring to travel first class to solve the problems of the worlds dispossessed . |