Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | The successful candidate must hold a first or second class honours degree . |
| 32 | It was decided that Wordsworth should write the first book or canto of the tale , Coleridge the second , ‘ and which ever had done first , was to set about the third ’ . |
| 33 | In a standardised approach to the immediate resuscitation of a casualty a quick assessment of the airway , breathing , and circulation ( which includes opening the airway ) should allow the first aider to decide whether the problem is unconsciousness alone , disturbed or absent breathing , or cardiac arrest . |
| 34 | As a pattern making and using system the mind must accept the first acceptable answer . |
| 35 | Smoke detectors may give the first alarm but detection is often by smell and by seeing smoke and flames . |
| 36 | Yes er , well I think we might , I 'll answer the second question but we 'll , we 'll , we 'll answer the first question but we 'll ask Michael , who 's right here to , to comment on entertainment . |
| 37 | ‘ We 'll catch the first flight to Frankfurt after we 've picked up our bags from the Mayfair . |
| 38 | As soon as I 've collected my things from the boat I 'll catch the first plane home and — ’ |
| 39 | Well I 'll do the first one for you cos I can do that . |
| 40 | I 'll send the first prisoner down to you when they arrive . |
| 41 | If we had five hundred years on earth we could say , ‘ OK , I 'll spend the first hundred years doing nothing in particular , the next hundred learning about life , the next hundred building a relationship , the next hundred working and my last hundred in leisure . ’ |
| 42 | You 'll spend the first couple of hours with ‘ Power Missy ’ trying to work out whether it 's a tease or a threat and then , just when you decide you really ca n't decide whether they 're all Polly Harvey bolshie or Sundays pliant , it may dawn on you that ‘ PM ’ is , in fact , f—ing scary , like playing S&M games with a dangerous schizophrenic . |
| 43 | I thought it would be up to seven weeks after my back operation before I was playing again , and I feared I might miss the first month of the season . ’ |
| 44 | So you do n't actually mention that if you do n't leave now you 'll miss the first act of the play , and he 'll be furious . |
| 45 | I 'll read the first two verses . |
| 46 | SCO boasts it 'll have the first COSE-compliant desktop on the market . |
| 47 | ‘ I 'll have the first one ; it 's only for one night , anyway . ’ |
| 48 | You might try the first part . |
| 49 | I 'll take the first one , that one is sweet . |
| 50 | I 'll hand the first one over to Frank . |
| 51 | I mean you think , when you sign y with your insurers thing say well I 'll have this and I 'll pay the first fifty |
| 52 | If there was any ambiguity , that is to say implications which might escape the first or indeed many subsequent readings , they were not the ones which would have made themselves more readily apparent if some form of graphic representation had preserved the tone of voice , the facial expressions or the hand movements of their author . |
| 53 | No , we 'll let the first side run . |
| 54 | If you 're playing against the computer you 'll play the first half kicking from left to right , changing ends at half time . |
| 55 | Cos you 'll get the first post then . |
| 56 | I 'll establish a first meeting as soon as I can . |
| 57 | In this second category we might place the first seventeen sonnets , with their persuasion to marriage , a sequence that may in fact draw some of its arguments and images from a model epistle , Erasmus 's Encomium Matrimonii , Englished by Sir Thomas Wilson as An Epistle to perswade a yong Gentleman to mariage , devised by Erasmus , in the behalfe of his freend . |
| 58 | At the beginning of each month , you 'll find the first page of each month is a replica of the back of the calendar card . |
| 59 | One might ask the first question : Is it art or is it craft ? it is a tour de force combining both . |
| 60 | Then they 'll kill the first passenger . ’ |