Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I propose to begin by first exploring what might be called the " reductivist strategy " . |
| 2 | It is this aspect of the craft that I want to look at first this month . |
| 3 | I did wonder at first whether or not they realized what they were taking on because Baldersdale is another world compared to what they have been accustomed to — very different indeed . |
| 4 | I wished I had got in first by telling her I no longer found her sexually attractive . |
| 5 | As this is the book I have turned to first ever since the first edition appeared in 1974 , it 's gratifying to note that enough people agree to take the volume into its third edition with a fourth on the way . |
| 6 | ‘ I have seen at first hand her effect on people young and old . |
| 7 | Which do you want to comment on first ? |
| 8 | She 'd decided at first that her brother deserved what was coming to him , but on reflection no one deserved to be thrown at Guido 's mercy . |
| 9 | Because you do not want a return to destructive two party politics and you do know at first hand that Liberal Democrats do put ‘ people first ’ ; that local income tax is a fair and predictable alternative to the poll tax ; that our stance on Hong Kong is morally right and that we realise the urgency of environmental action with targets for achievement away ahead of the other two parties . |
| 10 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 11 | Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year . |
| 12 | Let's go and see it , he had said , and she had recoiled at first . |
| 13 | " Confound it , Lovat , " she had said upon first setting eyes on Topaz . |
| 14 | Clare remembered how she had seemed at first to be constrained in all her movements and jerky , almost as if her stammer manifested itself through her body as well . |
| 15 | He was altogether too handsome , she had thought at first . |
| 16 | She seemed calm enough but the fit she had thrown on first wakening was fresh in his mind . |
| 17 | If your household is likely to expand in any way it might be cheaper in the long run to buy a larger model than the more modest affair you had thought of first . |
| 18 | Most people understand the need to express , but not what you have to take in first . |
| 19 | rate you have to add at first , you can drink it while it 's fermenting , it 's quite a refreshing drink a bit tart to my taste but when it ferments out it becomes er a liquor called Arak which is their version of . |
| 20 | In a letter of 1867 to a friend on the death of the latter 's brother he writes : " You have experienced at first hand … why our Schopenhauer exalts suffering and sorrow as a glorious fate , as the deuteros pious [ second way ] to the negation of the will … , |
| 21 | We want to get in first , ’ said a senior Government source . |
| 22 | and as we 've learnt in first Corinthians chapter fifteen that all different animals have different sorts of flesh , we 've got different flesh than , than different animals have n't we |
| 23 | But because of the special circumstances of York we 've got to first define and refine the area of search to a specific corridor and then the other locational criteria are just a guidance , first we take the proposals forward to the local plan stage . |
| 24 | Well hm you can see that er , members are also very concerned about it and er we 've er , i there are external circumstances that you know , we have to look into first . |
| 25 | Crewe wo n't be rushing him but we 're told that Liverpool are so impressed they 've asked for first option on him . |
| 26 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 27 | He has had to gamble on selling before he can buy , that 's why he got rid of first Ray Houghton and then Dean Saunders . |
| 28 | He quickly realised that , tactically , the situation at Verdun was not quite as desperate as it had seemed at first sight . |
| 29 | When he recalled how he had felt on first seeing her he had to push the sinful thoughts out of his mind . |
| 30 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |