Example sentences of "they be [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even gentle exercises , such as Yoga , can put tremendous stress on the body if they are done without first dealing with the fundamental issues of end-gaining and faulty sensory perception . |
| 2 | They are constructed by first identifying the conditions , actions , unless/however/but structures from narrative . |
| 3 | They are removed by first moving them inside the ALT |
| 4 | It seems to me that they are describing at first hand a world made up of physical materials similar to those which we can see and touch , with an invisible ( to most of us ) non-material life force much like the ether superimposed on it and within it . |
| 5 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 6 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 7 | The only thing , the only thing that all of us said categorically is they were fired upon first , but the trouble is they 've had fucking twenty years to , to think up their side and so there 's that so |
| 8 | The Lions believe they were robbed by first and last-minute decisions from Australian referee Brian Kinsey which gifted New Zealand eight points in a cliffhanging match . |