Example sentences of "[verb] out [art] first [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Jinny was paralysed until Keith prodded her and she choked out the first words . |
2 | To her right , as her eyes adjusted to the faint lifting of the darkness , she could just make out the first steps of the spiral tower staircase . |
3 | Back at Napo , the young cocoa trees in the nursery were growing well , and in February 1981 we planted out the first trees in our ‘ gene bank ’ . |
4 | And Per Tjerssen , the founder , had impoverished his life , his family , until his Spiderglass Company put out the first shoots towards immortality . |
5 | By the eighteenth century growing sugar and carrying out the first stages of refining it were the main economic activities on the islands . |
6 | In the 1950s , Professor Paul carried out the first experiments using a form of magnetic bottle — the ‘ Paul trap ’ — to isolate ionised atoms . |
7 | JUST as spring brings out the first swallows , so it also motivates incoming club tours from one or more of the four home countries . |