Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always test your would-be purchase first . |
| 2 | In the late 1640s and early 1650s , they lent their military support first to Charles and then to his son , the future Charles II , on condition that once the throne had been regained a Presbyterian church would be imposed upon the English . |
| 3 | Alice held her flamingo 's body under her arm , but the flamingo turned its long neck first this way and then that way . |
| 4 | So , so there are two bits , there 's , one is th that you need the the , the , the evidence from the north is that you need mobilization in order to get land reform and the way to get mobilization is rent reduction , interest rate reduction and then sort of the , the struggle meetings and that provides the activism to go to land reforms and the other bit is , is the military one , th that you 've learned that if you 're going to go through with land reform and keep the support , you 've got to make sure you 've got your military security first . |
| 5 | What Protschka and his excellent pianist Deutsch ( who gauges his tone ideally every time ) reveal in what promises to be an intégrale is the gulf between agreeably homely songs based on lesser versifiers and folk sources ( with one that occasionally stands out , like Es ist ein Schnitter , der heisst Tod ) and those where a poem has caught Mendelssohn 's imagination and he ceases to put his melodic shape first . |
| 6 | With difficulty she rolled his dead weight first to one side and then the other to search his pockets . |
| 7 | On May 25 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced that it had agreed to reactivate its standby programme first agreed in November 1989 and suspended in February 1990 [ see pp. 37040 ; 37244 ] , and to allow an immediate drawing of US$240 million of the $1,400 million made available under the original agreement . |
| 8 | I want to complete our previous work first . |
| 9 | You must put your personal life first . |
| 10 | If the editor decides to invert the press release , you 've actually done the right thing in putting your good point first . |