Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd ganged up on Kenny and afterwards he looked as if the mean streets had come up to meet him face first . |
| 2 | It was hard to know what to try first — tennis , squash , volleyball — no expert knowledge was required , just plenty of enthusiasm . |
| 3 | And I had this strange image of myself and Frankie Vaughan sitting in her front room , spinning a coin to see who went first . |
| 4 | ‘ You going to let me know first ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Thanks , Dad , that was jolly sporting of you to let me have first cast . |
| 6 | And when they silver plate things what they tend to do I mean first th the thing When you plate something erm it follows the shape . |
| 7 | Sequencing two or more objects to decide which came first is a strategy which is often used , although caution is necessary here . |
| 8 | We should never have got rid of the little Fiat we used to have which started first time every time and if anything did go wrong you could fix it with an elastic band or a bit of string , Gianluigi used to say , although personally I 'm hopeless with machinery . |
| 9 | Are you going to have something to eat first ? |
| 10 | You might have to get it going first . |
| 11 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 12 | Pupils could be asked to sequence two or more pictures , to say which came first . |
| 13 | I think it 's very hard to separate the two , but it 's a big chicken and egg , to say which came first , the social conditions or the furnishings is erm is very hard to say , but they are , I mean like in that example that I just gave , they 're very strongly tied up . |
| 14 | It becomes impossible to say which comes first : the attitudes we hold or what we experience . |
| 15 | When viewing video , students at all levels attempt to make sense of what they see by hypothesising an event that suits a setting , or a setting that suits an event — it is not possible to say which comes first . |