Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] first [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was said that this was the place where the tide came in first and went out last , but this recession has barely affected us so far ’ , announces Richard Needham , minister of state for Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | The inner goes up first and takes just four minutes to put up . |
| 3 | Well I was saying to Daddy actually I it would be better if I got up first and went in the bathroom . |
| 4 | I asked , wondering if they 'd been angry on behalf of Ban Bhāi because Chola and the other women had n't waited for his permission , or because they 'd cheated , sneaking out first and grabbing all the pine-needles at the edge of the forest without having to climb at all . |
| 5 | ‘ Th'best go down first and catch his legs when I 've helped him on to the ladder , ’ Jess told Hawkins . |
| 6 | He took off first and circled the field , testing the controls . |
| 7 | He reached for the bottle but Oliver got there first and pretended to be reading the label . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's thy task to get up first and see to the fire . |
| 9 | I round up all the suitable containers in the house — china , glass and plastic , plain and coloured — and on U-day , I sneak out first and put them in strategic places all round the garden . |
| 10 | He 'd come here first and found he could n't get in . |
| 11 | If all that does n't stop the person , they are obviously looking for trouble of some sort and you must quickly decide whether to lash out first or run for safety . |
| 12 | That i it would be the people who stood up first and accused the landlords and took the lead in the settling accounts procedure , they were more likely to be able to , to get more in the way of than anybody else , that they would get more land , more erm better quality land the animals , implements etcetera and those sort of , th those peasants who were taking the lead were actually members of the Party were they ? |