Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun sg] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she made for the orchard first . |
| 2 | He would jump in the river first . |
| 3 | Kenny made his League debut for the Palace at Tranmere in May 1975 at just over 16 years of age and is the second youngest player ever to appear in the Palace first team . |
| 4 | Some of UK regional papers appear on the bookstand first thing in the morning and , like the nationals , they are usually printed in the late evening or overnight , so the same considerations apply to the timing of the supply of information . |
| 5 | But within a year Tommy Cook was appearing on the doorstep first thing in the morning with a bottle of vodka . |
| 6 | I 'd like your recommendations for the best boiling , baking , roasting , chipping potatoes , three or four for different purposes but I 'm going to ask Walter to comment on the question first of all ? |
| 7 | My 5-year-old is now a regular ‘ discloser ’ : she loves using her black tablets — she strips to the skin first ( could n't find any to match the bathroom ! ) |
| 8 | Children will have great fun choosing which sweets to pick off the house first . |
| 9 | Indeed , indeed so that 's what you might use , yep What 's the value , I mean what does it do what does it do for the company first of all ? |
| 10 | It was scrap iron that came into the yard first , and bits and pieces of lead . |
| 11 | And rather surprisingly , bearing in mind what happens in the Endsleigh first division , that there it is goals scored that dis differentiates between teams , in this league it will be goal difference that will determine the final positions , followed then by the highest number of goals and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 12 | She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops . |
| 13 | It may be necessary to clean round the cover first . |
| 14 | " I 'd speak to the doctor first , " advised Mrs. Butler . |
| 15 | As the music business increasingly places so much importance on the look ( A & R men no longer listen to the music first : the priority of the A & R man is to envisage how the band will look on video ) so The Smiths abhor such methods . |
| 16 | She came to the dining-room first , a vast , almost medieval room with heavy furniture set on terracotta floor tiles . |
| 17 | Or invest in a foundation-and-powder compact which can be whizzed over the face first thing and used to touch up a shiny nose or chin during the day . |
| 18 | The owls are often seen outside the barn first thing in the morning , and they nip into the hay when disturbed . |
| 19 | We came across the line first , and that 's all that counts . |
| 20 | ‘ No comment because it 's got to be seen by the boss first because we 're taking this very seriously . ’ |
| 21 | The imminence of the Premier League means that this is probably the last time the famous old knockout tournament will be played while some degree of financial equality exists between the present First and Second divisions . |
| 22 | If Club Med or Universal Studios had thought of the idea first and sited it in Europe , it would probably have attracted government subsidies . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll be going into the Yard first thing to work out what 's to do . |
| 24 | I was terribly excited of course , to win the BBC competition but I do feel that going into the theatre first was a great help . |
| 25 | Mildred did her best to arrange the bucket hanging from the back , but it was obviously going to spill the minute they took off , she put the bucket back onto the window-sill , climbed onto the broom first , and then settled the bucket in her lap . |
| 26 | ‘ Or would you rather see round the house first ? ’ |
| 27 | Going in the shop first . |
| 28 | As with most initiatives , however , strength flowed from the centre first . |
| 29 | K. R. Not even shown round the beat first time . |
| 30 | We 're all going to the toilet first . |