Example sentences of "[no cls] first [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | And today really is er decision day that er first of all we 'll get one of the hurdles out of the way whether you and I think that this is a good |
2 | Well er first of all you 'd get the minutes of the last meeting and then you , you 'd get correspondence and then you 'd get chairman 's remarks . |
3 | Well obviously one would like to make money rather than lose money erm I mean there 's the there are quite a few factors why erm Virgin er lost money last year er first of all you know we had er the very well publicized er dirty tricks campaign being waged against us . |
4 | Er first of all you will tell them that we want a contract . |
5 | I , er first of all I was a kind of shy wee laddie as it were on the council . |
6 | For the purposes of the tape I think er we ought to explain that our management meetings are always run on very serious lines with no , no jokes allowed , er first of all I think we should just place on the record that this meeting is being taped everybody recognises that , and the purposes are for to analyse everybody 's linguistic ability and later on Tracy 's going to recite her piece her presentation for the purpose of the tape . |
7 | Oh , er first of all I enjoyed that record of Adam Faith 's . |
8 | No , not really I think erm , er first of all I think very important that especially with the Baltic share the public the should not give the commission to the Baltic public until , unless the Republic itself guaranteed the right of the Russian and minority and the Polish minority and the and the Republic . |
9 | Erm first of all we 'll get this ready for head of the form . |
10 | erm first of all we have had a post-War baby boom , a small one , and then a big one in the late fifties to the late seventies , peaking in nineteen sixty four , when in nineteen sixty four — I forget the figure — about nine hundred and sixty thousand babies were born in Great Britain . |
11 | But erm it 's all very easy to say you ca n't have socialism or this ideal state , whatever you might like to call it , unless it 's all er er you know kind of international er it 's got to be , happen all over the world or it never will happen at all but erm first of all it 's got to happen in your own country and it seems to me that we imagine that everybody , the mass of the people that we , we do that er we want this ideal state . |
12 | I 've got some erm announcements for this morning , Vicky , erm first of all I 'd like to introduce you to Anthony who comes from Longman 's Dictionaries why did , why did you do that Melanie ? |
13 | Erm first of all I would like to make the point that er it 's typical of our friends over this side to arrange an ethic dimension when they were er opposing their amendment , it confuses the issue , it is racist and should n't occur . |
14 | Erm first of all I I 'm not in support of an exceptions policy . |
15 | Very very very briefly Chairman , erm first of all you can see in paragraph two point three and you see the matter that 's being erm the subject of discussion previously erm there was n't to be an issues report as such , but er Stragg itself the advisory group did feel that it would be useful that er er a leaflet be prepared and distributed erm you I do n't think Chairman would have seen it , but hot off the presses is being erm with us this morning er an an and only delivered this morning are some copies of th the leaflet that we have now erm prepared er you will have seen that in draft form Chairman and members of Strang will have seen that draft form so er both Stragg members and other members of the Committee if they would like to take a copy away with them , that there are a number here , but they will be er given wide distribution later on . |
16 | Yo first of all you must distinguish Northern Ireland from other ar territories in the world where there has been terrorism . |