Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 2 | Kenny made his League debut for the Palace at Tranmere in May 1975 at just over 16 years of age and is the second youngest player ever to appear in the Palace first team . |
| 3 | I 'd like your recommendations for the best boiling , baking , roasting , chipping potatoes , three or four for different purposes but I 'm going to ask Walter to comment on the question first of all ? |
| 4 | Children will have great fun choosing which sweets to pick off the house first . |
| 5 | Surround crowns with straw during winter to protect them from frost — in colder areas you may need to earth up the stems first . |
| 6 | It may be necessary to clean round the cover first . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm goin' to look at the story first and then tells it in me own way , like what I done with Noah . |
| 8 | When you have someone in pain and a child who wants to play , you have to deal with the pain first . |
| 9 | If the Goblin Fanatic manages to keep going then he quickly becomes disoriented , and will start to spin about the battlefield first one way and then another — which can be very disconcerting for all combatants ! |
| 10 | The power lead from the transformer has to go to the keyboard first and a short lead from here connects to the PCB . |
| 11 | you want to go to the toilet first ? |
| 12 | I think you need to go to the toilet first before we have lunch . |
| 13 | Whitechurch was shown the works by Mr G. Coker , chief draughtsman : ‘ There are two chief ways of seeing the works , either to begin at the finished coach and work backwards to the details , or to go to the beginning first and work upwards , but , at all events , you shall see as much as we can show you in a day ’ . |
| 14 | Well we need to go to the reports first . |
| 15 | The majority of deaths from lung cancer happen to smokers ; smoking causes heart disease , bronchitis and emphysema ; many more suffer years of debilitating illness that would certainly kill them if some other cause of death — crossing the road to go to the tobacconist first , perhaps — did not intervene . |
| 16 | You 'll have your turn , but Boisson and I have a score to settle with the bitch first . ’ |
| 17 | I sank into a squashy chair not caring whether we were on fire or not , it had to get through the water first . |
| 18 | However , they have to get past the door first . |
| 19 | MALCOLM ALLEN , who has not been able to get into the Norwich first team this season , showed that Wales ' absentee forwards , Ian Rush and Mark Hughes , had better beware of him . |
| 20 | How can I do it , I 've got to get in the building first |
| 21 | Patrick intended to get to the suspects first . |
| 22 | Once he had settled into the right-back position he was impossible to move from the Palace first team ( unless illness or injury intervened , and the career chart shows that there was only one season when that happened to any serious degree ) , and he appeared there regularly until the 1st World War brought an end to competitive football and threw everyone 's affairs into confusion . |
| 23 | If it 's flush and you 're flush mounting the new one , unscrew it and prise it out of the wall ( you may need to cut through the plaster first with an old knife to help free it ) . |
| 24 | But Houston Oilers quarterback Warren Moon explains : ‘ Creating turnovers has become so important that players are being coached to strike with the helmet first in the hope it will jar the ball loose . |
| 25 | He might say he 'd like to speak to the guy first . |