Example sentences of "[to-vb] from [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His 22-year-old step grandchild Madjit was forced to jump from the first floor with his pyjamas ablaze . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll have to jump from the first floor , ’ said Cardiff . |
| 3 | Unsuccessful at first , southern whaling began to flourish from the first decade of the 20th century , based initially at shore stations on South Georgia , later on pelagic fleets of factory ships and catchers . |
| 4 | It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War . |
| 5 | But Smith admitted : ‘ We 've got three points out of four , and that 's what we set out to achieve from the first two games . |
| 6 | Short , left-handed and aggressive , he was an opener who hit the ball extremely hard , played every shot in the book with great relish and was always looking to attack from the first ball . |
| 7 | There is the objection , however , whatever else is to be said , that the third statement fails to follow from the first two only because of an ambiguity — and more precisely because the consequent of the first conditional is in fact not identical with the antecedent of the second . |
| 8 | Middlesbrough are no Spartak , and were no match for Souness 's side , who shook off any possible European hangover to dominate from the first whistle . |