Example sentences of "[to-vb] their [noun] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually they have few opportunities to check that their instructions are being pursued and almost none to supervise their execution at first hand . |
| 2 | So if I start another tape I think I 've to put their names in first right . |
| 3 | Or , for instance , the floating roadway where traffic was going down on the barges to go across the river , it would be well worth any particular company to have a word with the officer on the floating roadway to let their vehicles through first . |
| 4 | The social worker regularly assigned to the case seemed to call when most of the children were at school , so he was unable to judge their progress at first hand . |
| 5 | This simple account of cattle-raiding followed by an expedition to punish the thieves explains the situation on frontiers all over the world , and of course these punitive expeditions ( which sometimes took the form of pre-emptive strikes by people who wanted to get their retaliation in first ) were carried out without consulting any central government . |