Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases , no specific product is mentioned , but a key aspect of the organization 's marketing policy is referred to eg ‘ We 'll Take More Care of You … ’ or ‘ Shop at X , where the customer comes first … |
| 2 | I 'm not sure that The Correspondent came first , no I 'm not sure that anybody came first . |
| 3 | New Yorkers will tell you that the surname comes first on the cabbie 's ID . |
| 4 | But analysts pointed out that the credit had first been announced in the second quarter of last year . |
| 5 | ( This is not to deny that the members of the class resemble one another — they must — but only that the resemblance comes first , and so can be the ‘ ground ’ of the class . ) |
| 6 | It was during that holiday that the notion had first come to Melissa of setting a novel in the region . |
| 7 | T.R. Shipping believed in the motto that the customer comes first . |
| 8 | Assuming he was murdered , assuming that the murderer went first into the kitchen , then he could have crept back silently and attacked Berowne from behind . |
| 9 | Weighing these factors and the circumstances of the case , including the pending change in the legislation of the Federal Republic of Germany on the matter of discovery requests from abroad , the court held that the balance favoured first resort to the Convention . |
| 10 | I ordered so recklessly that the waiter looked first surprised , then delighted , then alarmed . |
| 11 | The proposed date of entry is November 1988 , still feasible because the developer continued with early work because , although the Council had first option on the new building , there were other potential clients also . |
| 12 | An audio-tape recording in which the exercises are described can be a useful adjunct to teaching the patient this method , provided the therapist has first demonstrated the procedure to the patient , and the technique has been learned adequately . |
| 13 | She did not pause to marvel that she had so many reasons for anger — as if the anger grew first , and grew tall , before any reason came along to prop it up . |
| 14 | If someone does pick on you and you ca n't escape without fighting , have the courage to accept that trouble is inevitable , the foresight to check that your escape route is clear , and the resolve to attack first . |
| 15 | The team needs you , Gowie , and the team comes first with me . |
| 16 | The flashing light is then picked up by a sensor at the distant end and the information converted first into a corresponding electrical pattern then into sound using an earpiece or loudspeaker . |
| 17 | Elisabeth Leonskaja opts for the second of these views in her performance of No. 1 , and the deliberate- sounding first movement that results is not altogether convincing . |
| 18 | The horse is more steady , but the ox came first , so I think prefer the ox . |
| 19 | The date of Edward 's coronation had not been announced , partly because the protector wished first to ascertain the reaction of the commonalty to the news that the three prisoners at Pontefract had been executed . |
| 20 | There was little agreement concerning the agenda of the meeting , however , with the North favouring an immediate discussion of military , political and economic issues , while the South wanted first to agree on confidence-building measures such as exchange visits and cultural co-operation . |
| 21 | Wearside golf club played host to their fellow centurians City of Newcastle golf club last weekend 98 years since the club had first contested a game . |
| 22 | Thus it happened that in November 1989 , more than six years after the matter had first come to light , he was charged with two offences of offering an advantage to Mr. Turner , contrary to the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance ( Laws of Hong Kong , 1987 rev. , c. 201 ) . |
| 23 | He was n't sure whether the klaxon blared first or the perimeter floodlights snapped on , saturating the clearing with harsh blinding light . |
| 24 | When the phone rang first , she paused , then shrugged . |
| 25 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 26 | Some say that hunting in old burned-over sites when the oak leaves first appear is a good and fruitful strategy , but others insist that morels are best collected in old apple orchards at the time when the lilacs bloom . |
| 27 | Behind her the two seats were empty , a troublous reminder of where Eddie and Laura had sat side by side when the coach had first set off from Heathrow Airport … had first arrived at the eastern outskirts of Oxford . |
| 28 | When the man had first arrived he had tried to torture information on how to escape from one of the waiters . |
| 29 | He had not read the Tower Commission 's report , evidently ; did not know that McFarlane had pleaded guilty to misdemeanours ; did not know the substance of the charges against Poindexter ; had not altered in any particular the mythology created when the edifice had first crashed down , in November 1986 . |
| 30 | Some of the archers thought that if the competition were restricted to longbows it would die out but , after a decrease when the steel bows first appeared , the number of longbows at the Scorton shoot is steadily increasing . |