Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Because she disliked it so , he found a fleeting pleasure in calling her by her first name . |
| 32 | He moved on to build up quite a successful sub-post office , yet still people remember him for his first novel ’ |
| 33 | Halvard , I compressed one of the files ok and then mailed it to myself first to see if I was getting everything right . |
| 34 | Steve , I 'm going to give it to you first this time That 's right , yes , that 's good , So you can actually throw away the cover sheet , you , you really do n't need that . |
| 35 | The comrades we have been teaching are very pleasant , but a bit more reticent than elsewhere — the people at Peking and Sian got round to calling us by our first names , but here it 's ‘ miss ’ and ‘ Professor ’ ( or , to give my name in Chinese ) . |
| 36 | The scrutineers will proceed to add the number of first preference votes received by each candidate , eliminate the candidate with the lowest number of first preference votes and redistribute the votes of those giving him as their first preference amongst the two remaining candidates in accordance with their second preference . |
| 37 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 38 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 39 | ‘ I 'll have it for you first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 40 | If you are n't happy with the service you 're getting from your GP , dentist or optician , then discuss it with them first . |
| 41 | If you are n't happy with the service you 're getting from your GP , dentist or optician , then discuss it with them first . |
| 42 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 43 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 44 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 45 | In response , Major has only been able to parrot the phrase that has sustained him since his first day in office : ‘ All the ingredients of recovery are in place … ’ |
| 46 | The star was shapeless and the candle spattered with glue reminding her of her first efforts . |
| 47 | It is in the field of assessment that the new arrangements are likely to pose the most difficulties for teachers and distract them from their first task of finding their way into ‘ the very queer and tortuous passages of children 's minds ’ . |
| 48 | This is emphasised by the Burger King policy to call everyone by their first names . |
| 49 | Can you tell me of your first involvement with the support group ? |
| 50 | After settling the children into their hotel , the team took them on their first visit — to Disney 's Magic Kingdom , a giant playground of spectacular rides . |
| 51 | ‘ I saw you through your first marriage , so the least I can do is see you through your first murder investigation . ’ |
| 52 | And allowing someone to call you by your first name ( 'Please , call me John' ) has the sub-text : ‘ I am higher-status than you are and so can grant you this permission . ’ |
| 53 | Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name . |
| 54 | For instance , if I have a student in my class old enough to be my mother , is it appropriate to call her by her first name ? |
| 55 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 56 | Yet it was a most unlikely vehicle which took him to his first truly national conquest : a cart . |
| 57 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 58 | Not without hearing it from you first . ’ |
| 59 | Denice tells us about her first date , when she was seventeen , and talks about her early life in Houston . |
| 60 | She took us to our first activity which was to learn the Pax Lodge song . |