Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I propose to begin by first exploring what might be called the " reductivist strategy " . |
| 2 | It is this aspect of the craft that I want to look at first this month . |
| 3 | As this is the book I have turned to first ever since the first edition appeared in 1974 , it 's gratifying to note that enough people agree to take the volume into its third edition with a fourth on the way . |
| 4 | ‘ I have seen at first hand her effect on people young and old . |
| 5 | Because you do not want a return to destructive two party politics and you do know at first hand that Liberal Democrats do put ‘ people first ’ ; that local income tax is a fair and predictable alternative to the poll tax ; that our stance on Hong Kong is morally right and that we realise the urgency of environmental action with targets for achievement away ahead of the other two parties . |
| 6 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 7 | Most people understand the need to express , but not what you have to take in first . |
| 8 | rate you have to add at first , you can drink it while it 's fermenting , it 's quite a refreshing drink a bit tart to my taste but when it ferments out it becomes er a liquor called Arak which is their version of . |
| 9 | In a letter of 1867 to a friend on the death of the latter 's brother he writes : " You have experienced at first hand … why our Schopenhauer exalts suffering and sorrow as a glorious fate , as the deuteros pious [ second way ] to the negation of the will … , |
| 10 | We want to get in first , ’ said a senior Government source . |
| 11 | and as we 've learnt in first Corinthians chapter fifteen that all different animals have different sorts of flesh , we 've got different flesh than , than different animals have n't we |
| 12 | But because of the special circumstances of York we 've got to first define and refine the area of search to a specific corridor and then the other locational criteria are just a guidance , first we take the proposals forward to the local plan stage . |
| 13 | Well hm you can see that er , members are also very concerned about it and er we 've er , i there are external circumstances that you know , we have to look into first . |
| 14 | Crewe wo n't be rushing him but we 're told that Liverpool are so impressed they 've asked for first option on him . |