Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tony was thinking of packing it in over a month ago but I told him to go away and talk it over with his family first . |
| 2 | There followed a period of ten years of overwork and stagnant promotion , but his career took off with his promotion first to assistant secretary and then to be the chairman of the Prison Commission ( 1932–9 ) . |
| 3 | I 'll take you up to your room first . ’ |
| 4 | The chief investigators here were E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh , rivals in the manner of robber barons , chartering trains and suborning each other 's assistants in an effort to get the spoils back to their base first . |
| 5 | Would you like me to take you back to your room first ? ’ |