Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [noun sg] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I positioned the rose first and then tucked a rose leaf either side of it . |
| 2 | For the design photographed on the facing page , I chose the frame first because I was so attracted by its marble effect and the inlay banding around the frame . |
| 3 | ‘ I bought the suite first and decorated the room around the colours of the fabric , using pinks and blues , ’ explains Geoff . |
| 4 | ‘ Once again I bought the suite first and decided to decorate the room around it , this time taking birds and blue as my themes . ’ |
| 5 | I bought the suite first and decided to decorate the room around it |
| 6 | Whether it was the media , leaders of interest groups , or trigger events ( such as the sequence of New York City smogs during the 1960s , publication of numerous books which continued the theme first introduced in Rachel Carson 's Silent Spring , or Ralph Nader 's environmental reports ) which generated the environmental movement , the media sustained public interest for environmental issues ( figure 8.5 ) . |
| 7 | These engaged with a toothed wheel ( driven by a weight suspended from a drum ) which pushed the verge first one way and then the other , causing the foliot to oscillate . |
| 8 | So erm , was that when you joined the branch first of all ? |
| 9 | It was Magnus who discovered the girl first ; he yelped unsteadily , his voice rising with excitement , and Gina went to see what he had found . |
| 10 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 11 | Against that though , if she rang the garage first , she would then have more of an idea of when she would be travelling back to England . |
| 12 | He was there ; she saw the Alsatian first , it came flying over and knocked Magnus sideways . |
| 13 | As you saw the man first , I think you would be interested to interview him now , and see if his attitude to himself has altered . ’ |
| 14 | Dealers who put the client first were bound to fail . |
| 15 | We when we got the song first and recorded we we were talking one day and we were just saying it would be an ideal song for Children in Need you know so we decided that we 'd er donate all the proceeds from this track on the video and album and the concert in Stockport , it 's tomorrow night is n't it ? |
| 16 | So I says No , when we had the phone first we were the only one in the telephone directory . |
| 17 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 18 | They did the harvest first you see . |
| 19 | He heard the whimpering first . |
| 20 | He broke the silence first . |
| 21 | He reached the bottom first and the teapot , a close second , hit him on the head and smashed , spilling luke-warm tea down his navy-blue shirt . |
| 22 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 23 | He reached the fence first , then wriggled his way under the wire and ran to the edge of the vivid-green swampland . |
| 24 | He saw the gun first , held against the back of the driver 's seat in the extended fist of the hunched dark figure in the rear . |
| 25 | When the plane landed at Frankfurt he left the airport first , bypassing the wait at the carousel which held up his colleagues . |
| 26 | He left the office first , waiting for the two women to follow him out before closing the door again . |