Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I want to try it out first . |
| 2 | If you can get them into combat they stand a good chance of winning , but you can guarantee the enemy will do his best to shoot them up first . |
| 3 | I 'm pleased to be able to answer my very first oral question . |
| 4 | You might find it helpful to plan what you will say in advance and to talk it over first with someone you trust and who already knows the situation . |
| 5 | ‘ But I think we ought to talk it over first . |
| 6 | Try to remember your very first experiences of reading . |
| 7 | I 'll get in touch with the agriculture people and get them to send someone out first thing tomorrow . ’ |
| 8 | We used to get a collar of rope , manilla rope , put it on to a truck and used to stretch it out first and then cut off the lengths . |
| 9 | He summoned Chamberlain to see him again first thing the next morning and told him his new plan . |
| 10 | The girls declined their gentlemanly offer to allow them over first , realising that once at the top , the boys would have a beautiful view of their unmentionables . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're supposed to heat them up first , ’ said Sam , ‘ and add the cream at the last minute . ’ |
| 12 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 13 | It makes much more sense to drop you off first . ’ |
| 14 | If something 's going to happen , it will happen , but in my case I take damned good care to check everything out first . |
| 15 | It 's , it 's up to you , if you , if you like us to drop her back first at seven |
| 16 | Well I 'll have to check it out first . |
| 17 | Like I said earlier , it 's important to think it through first , decide what you want and why , figure out how to get it , and then go for it . ’ |
| 18 | He 's got to get us out first . " |