Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , but I want to talk to you first . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I want to talk to you first , about leaving here tomorrow . ’ |
| 3 | He says he needs to talk to you first . |
| 4 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 5 | Cos she , she 'd gone to you first and she , and she came along , she said erm Ann 's not in , she said I 've come down to see you both . |
| 6 | But we 're going to talk to you first , and then you can start putting it behind you . |
| 7 | On the spur of the moment he said : ‘ I would like to talk to you first . ’ |
| 8 | We 've got to pay for them first . |
| 9 | Cos if he gets rid of them first then he does n't have to worry about those things until er later which sometimes does happen . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll have to go through me first , ’ warned fitzAlan , his voice low with menace . |
| 11 | ‘ Then you should have come to me first . |
| 12 | ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out . |
| 13 | She would have to listen to him first . |
| 14 | ‘ I really came to see Sophie , but I could n't resist calling on you first . ’ |
| 15 | I think I 'd talk to them first and if they 're agreeable then I 'd give you their name and telephone number but I 'd have to speak to them first but I would n't just give out the name and telephone number on an ad hoc basis . |
| 16 | But the young man managed to get to it first . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ We 'll get going on it first thing tomorrow . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , that 's why I want to get rid of it first . |
| 19 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 20 | ‘ Actually , I think the Colonel will want to speak to you first . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Why , Mr Felse ! ’ said Lesley , opening the door to him , and blessedly forgetting to think of him first by his rank and office . |
| 22 | Need to get through me first . |