Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] first [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It is not clear why the theft or robbery count should be considered before that of handling except that the theft or robbery must have come first in time . |
2 | What I 'd like to do first of all is just to summarise wha what we did yesterday . |
3 | I 'd like to speak first of all about what John was saying about negotiations and then subsequently about spending up to charge capping level . |
4 | Perhaps , if Pascoe had n't arrived , she would have gone first to her knees , then sat down , her tongue out like dead meat , with Zeno kneeling up behind her using his hands like someone binding a bale . |
5 | In a letter dated 19 November , the Lord Advocate said that in Scotland ’ Civil actions are raised in the Court of Session or Sheriff Court Mrs. would have to establish first of all that she does indeed have a right to raise an action arising from the unfortunate incident of which she has complained . |
6 | If there were a need for a review or anything of that sort the initiative would have to come first from the Catering Sub-Committee . |
7 | I would have thought first of all we 've got to update what we 've got as it |
8 | HP pooh-poohs Sun 's programme for focusing solely on discounts and wanting to move Domain users to ‘ ageing members of Sun 's product family ’ then on to Sparcstation 10s in two step process that would require going first to Solaris 1.0 and then to Solaris 2.0 . |
9 | and if I ca n't get want I want at the Famlingham Textile Centre which is excellent when I next need fabrics I shall come up , I will come up to London and I 'll go to Libertys , but I will have measured first of all to within an inch as to what I want because |
10 | Usually ( i.e. in the case of a sale of specific goods in a deliverable state , see Chapter 3 ) , property will have passed first to B ( i. e. at the time he made his contract ) . |