Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must relate to my first sight of my mother 's genitals — but not the last — for we lived in just one room . |
| 2 | However , I have to confess that as you were a new arrival and not one of us into the bargain , I thought I should glance at your first letter or two home … |
| 3 | It has spent most of its 37 years counselling university graduates about where they should look for their first jobs . |
| 4 | If you get the green light from the Head , then get together with any friends who are ready to help and any teachers who have offered support to discuss what should happen at your first meeting . |
| 5 | Since bleomycin degrades DNA in a catalytic fashion , and all our cleavage experiments are performed at very low antibiotic concentrations ( nanomolar ) , it must dissociate from its first binding site before a second cleavage event can occur . |
| 6 | I , I 'll speak to them first and I 'll , I 'll er when , when , when you come back with some details I , I 'll let you know then . |
| 7 | So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum . |
| 8 | It 's a fresh , young style you might use for your first home , or if you want to start anew in your lounge or bedroom . |
| 9 | Well they wo n't give him it straight away , they 'll see to you first . |
| 10 | ‘ Right , I 'll see to it first thing . ’ |
| 11 | Oh I 'll pay for mine first and sh she 'd already rung mine through till like , little dickhead . |
| 12 | ‘ And do you promise that if you need a shoulder to cry on , you 'll come to me first ? ’ |
| 13 | I think I 'll talk to them first and if they 're agreeable then I 'll , I 'll , then I 'll pass them . |
| 14 | I 'll talk to you first about the Notts County pl the ever improving young fullback at number two as the teams come out . |
| 15 | Now he could concentrate on his first television situation comedy series . |
| 16 | All I could remember of my first visit was that I had found several items , including a Tudor buckle . |
| 17 | She was miserable now but inevitably she 'd recover from her first heavy affair . |
| 18 | I think I 'd talk to them first and if they 're agreeable then I 'd give you their name and telephone number but I 'd have to speak to them first but I would n't just give out the name and telephone number on an ad hoc basis . |
| 19 | Compound nouns in which the second element denotes an agent or an action may have for their first element a noun denoting the object of the action : housekeeper , housekeeping . |
| 20 | Let's go to our first call and erm that 's good . |
| 21 | We acted in the belief ( for which there was statistical support ) that the majority of students having obtained their Certificates , would look for their first jobs locally . |
| 22 | And now , in less than five hours , Prince Yuan would arrive for his first annual inspection . |
| 23 | Kevin Dutton was unsure of the reaction he would get to his first unconventional portrait of a British comedian , he certainly did n't expect to find others demanding the same treatment . |
| 24 | How total , he asks in a critique of totalization which Derrida would characterize as his first ‘ classical ’ formulation , can the totalization be ? |
| 25 | SELLAFIELD 'S nuclear reprocessing plant , due to be in operation by the end of the year , is already storing some of the 7,000 tonnes of material it will recycle in its first decade . |
| 26 | Ballantyne 's description is the first one written , so I will look at it first . |
| 27 | I can see a marriage that is not a marriage and a parson who is not a parson , and you will die of your first child . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's a fact that in the first 12 months one in three firms will close and in the longer term 900pc of new companies will shut in their first five years . ’ |
| 29 | We will start in our first parliamentary session with a Freedom of Information Act which will open up government to the people . |
| 30 | Now , let's start with your first problem . |