Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [adv] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was saying to Daddy actually I it would be better if I got up first and went in the bathroom . |
| 2 | ‘ It would be much easier if I went in first and then you could push me up , ’ said Fenella . |
| 3 | I mean if he got there first . |
| 4 | If he approved then First Level would approve , for he was their mouthpiece , their conscience in these times of change . |
| 5 | In a word , when I came thither first there was about one family in a street that worshipped God and called on His name , and when I came away there was not passed one family in the side of a street that did not so , and that did not , by professing serious godliness , give us hopes of their sincerity . |
| 6 | As I sat there first at EDC [ Economic Development Committee ] and then at Home Affairs , I reflected on the way that Cabinet Committees as well as the Cabinet itself are becoming part of the dignified element of the English constitution . |
| 7 | I think I did get a letter from you in Danu when you got back first all those years ago , I remember I gave the stamps to my nephew . |
| 8 | So did you do any singing when you came here first ? |
| 9 | It was the weekend I bought the Granada , I 'm sure it was when we went away first time I ever took it out for a run . |
| 10 | Er , you like the milkman the milkman I mean absolutely stupid I thought because he kept putting milk up it was thirty P when we went there first |
| 11 | Yeah and er you know we can do a certain amount but I think if you went away from that you can go away from it a little bit but I think if you went too much away the people that you have and and our audience when we 've got them you know , they tend to stay with us you know they do n't change like the the youngsters and when we started off first you know our audience were mainly over forty five fifty plus really and now they 're down to we 're getting you know loads of of people in their twenties and in their teens and even down to kids like last night , five and six years old . |
| 12 | Er it would n't have been so bad you know because we when we set out first it was just you know to be successful at home and then we were successful over here and that was you know was the serious big surprise . |
| 13 | And as we brought out first thing this morning , communication within the group , that is across the functions , and also in some cases within the functions , is poor . |
| 14 | All was soon forgotten as we trooped off first to a reception thrown by the Count and Countess de Vogue , and then to the Worthington , Fort Worth 's grand hotel , for dinner and dancing . |
| 15 | When it came out first . |
| 16 | I think some of them do , yes , I know s er some of them have said how much they enjoyed it when it started off first , but er but now it 's just got that wee bit more serious . |
| 17 | That 's all , that 's all I could do wa mind you , I went when the war finished when the war finished and that do n't forget , and Reg , when he packed up first , I went to my stud groom and made your beating . |
| 18 | But Greg says he did set out to irritate his former boss as he got there first with talks with RHM last May . |