Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] first " in BNC.

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1	In Joan Halton 's attempt to be more whole , she needed to know more about her desire to come first , at least for part of the time , rather than always maintaining the veneer of premature maturity she had felt forced into adopting as a child .
2	This leads us to propose the ‘ causal direction hypothesis ’ : children learn about the role of causal connectives as indicators of which event is cause and which effect before they learn about their role as indicators of which event happened first .
3	To B. , the happiness of her family comes first and she is , in the eyes of Miller , clearly in the right all along .
4	‘ Have you brought a sample of your urine taken first thing in the morning ? ’
5	In retrospect , it is easy to see that , should recruitment generally fall , ours would ( unless the nature of our recruitment changed first ) fall away disastrously .
6	It must be very hard for those fresh-faced New Georgians to realise that in their wake comes first the ruched blind , then the office use , followed by a bevy of Sock Shops , Tie Racks and Knickerboxes .
7	Does the Minister not recognise the dangers of fragmenting the health service and destroying the planning framework ; the cost of ever-increasing bureaucracy ; the reduction in choice for the doctor ; the fear that this is a road that leads to a two-tier system in which money comes first and the Health Service is relegated to a safety-net , fallback provision ?
8	By the 1870s general questions of marine biology had become prominent , partly in an evolutionary context in which life had first begun in the sea .
9	In a ‘ chicken and egg ’ situation , controversy flares among breed enthusiasts as to which type evolved first , and each side will take the credit for being the forebear of the other .
10	Apply to your bottom lashes first — use the point of the mascara wand and work down lashes individually .

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