Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How much of your clobber will you need for your first two days ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't wait for his first day — I 'll spend it in bed . ’ |
| 3 | True , if understood to relate to candidates as persons : my third preference for Brawny can never count against my first preference for Beefy . |
| 4 | And I was trying to , gon na move the was gon na discuss with you first , but Croydon see , so they 're actually not Croydon Rank , they 're Croydon , but anyway |
| 5 | SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade . |
| 6 | Now he could concentrate on his first television situation comedy series . |
| 7 | However , I have to confess that as you were a new arrival and not one of us into the bargain , I thought I should glance at your first letter or two home … |
| 8 | The apple as symbol is all around us but most of us would still think of it first as a tasty snack . |
| 9 | Mm yes , let's see what you can do for me first . |
| 10 | Nor did he ever speak of his first wife , her mother . |
| 11 | What do I do with it first of all ? |
| 12 | So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum . |
| 13 | I , I 'll speak to them first and I 'll , I 'll er when , when , when you come back with some details I , I 'll let you know then . |
| 14 | There are four essentially different things a process can do on its first step : ( i ) it diverges ; ( ii ) it communicates with its environment ( and goes on to its second step ) ; ( iii ) it stops because , even though it has not terminated , it can not agree with its environment on any communication ; ( iv ) it terminates in some state . |
| 15 | Yet for all this newfound hostility to the most lickspittle Press in the ‘ free ’ world , what did Dave Mellor do on his first day out of the Cabinet ? |
| 16 | It has spent most of its 37 years counselling university graduates about where they should look for their first jobs . |
| 17 | We acted in the belief ( for which there was statistical support ) that the majority of students having obtained their Certificates , would look for their first jobs locally . |
| 18 | What can you remember about your first week , or when you joined the force ? |
| 19 | It 's a fresh , young style you might use for your first home , or if you want to start anew in your lounge or bedroom . |
| 20 | All I could remember of my first visit was that I had found several items , including a Tudor buckle . |
| 21 | Well they wo n't give him it straight away , they 'll see to you first . |
| 22 | ‘ Right , I 'll see to it first thing . ’ |
| 23 | For those who did stick to their first choice , the most important consideration seems to have been simply how much they wanted — or could afford — to pay back each month . |
| 24 | I never ticked it , it does damn all for me , I do n't see why I should n't insist on my first colour-choice or nothing . |
| 25 | Ballantyne 's description is the first one written , so I will look at it first . |
| 26 | This targets them towards the most important part of the prey , where they can do most damage with their first contact . |
| 27 | She was miserable now but inevitably she 'd recover from her first heavy affair . |
| 28 | With this rather crude model of chemical reactions , we can return to our first question : why do only certain particular reactions occur in cells ? |
| 29 | We did n't hear about you first time round . ’ |
| 30 | Any such media coverage should , in no way , present different factual information from that supplied to employees who should also hear about it first . |