Example sentences of "[verb] we [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us examine the first two phases . |
| 2 | Let us explore the first of these words — ‘ encounter ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's hard to believe we cut the first sod here only 15 months ago , ’ smiles John , who naturally did n't go into a project like this blind-folded . |
| 4 | I thought we edged the first half and although they edged the second , we had the better chances . ’ |
| 5 | No sooner had we caught the first heady whiff of the East and altered the chemistry of our food with it than we made a quantum leap in our cultural and artistic range as well . |
| 6 | It is perfectly true that there is nothing conclusively in the poem to make us identify the first stair with Dante 's Inferno , the second with his Purgatorio , the third with Paradiso ; as there is not ( a more piercing uncertainty ) anything to determine for us whether ‘ the broadbacked figure drest in blue and green ’ , with his ‘ music of the flute ’ , is an image of what must be renounced in order to achieve Paradise , or else an image of how terrestrial life can most nearly attain the paradisal . |
| 7 | What stops us taking the first step and using it ? |