Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I have to put you first on the list instead of me . |
| 2 | she has to taste it first |
| 3 | Do you have to sieve it first ? |
| 4 | You 've got me first two lessons after dinner have n't you ? |
| 5 | When she had seen him first , she had marked him as a " bully " , one of those who kept the brothel girls in line . |
| 6 | Jamaica indicated another approach to the art of colonization , in which the government took valuable colonies away from Europeans who had reached them first . |
| 7 | If only you had read it first — as at least six people did without realising . |
| 8 | You have to see them first hand . |
| 9 | So if you actually want to italicize something , you want to make it bold , you le you have to select it first and then you can carry out the tha , the function . |
| 10 | It was a killer , but we had to do it first . |
| 11 | She paused , before adding accusingly , ‘ Besides , we have to find them first , and I 'm not sure sitting here indulging ourselves is a very effective way of doing that — particularly as my time in Denmark is limited ! ’ |
| 12 | Is there not two separate problems that we have to find them first and then the , then worrying about getting people to the theatre |
| 13 | I suppose that 's because they had to kill him first . |
| 14 | Cos I have n't said that my MP can have a pay rise , and as I vote for my M P , and you vote for your M P , they have to ask us first as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 15 | ‘ Having a gun just means the other fellow feels he has to shoot you first . |
| 16 | She could see nothing unless he had seen it first . |
| 17 | The bright light — this was what had struck them first — issued from an old street lamp , leaning at a crazy angle , rather suggesting an amateur production of Tales of Hoffmann , fitted , in place of glass , with sheets of mauve plastic , and trailing a long cable which disappeared down the companion . |