Example sentences of "we [vb past] first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For twelve years after J. and I were married we lived first in West and then East Africa , an entirely different kind of life from what had gone before . |
| 2 | In order to decide what to include in the questionnaire we drew first of all on issues which had emerged in the two case studies . |
| 3 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 4 | We talked first about the Toxteth riots and then came the declaration . |
| 5 | We called first at the post office , set in a square edged by trees , wells and the concrete facades of offices flying the red , white and green national flag . |
| 6 | Er and this this case the there was a fire in a flat , the chap had gone out to work , we did n't know he 'd gone out to work , so we broke First of all we informed the fire brigade was on the way , we broke down the door , quick look in the flat , best possible way we could look , and the fire brigade turned up and dealt with the flat . |
| 7 | We went first to the short-termers ' section , which consisted of several barracks in a surprisingly spacious compound . |
| 8 | We went first to the Visitor Centre , an old long house barn built of locally quarried limestone and slate , to check up on ‘ new arrivals ’ — summer migrants flying in . |
| 9 | We looked first of all at the relationship of grammar to discourse and the extent to which formal cohesive ties operate across sentence boundaries . |
| 10 | We stayed first with Gary and Kaye ( Burns ) , who live near the top of Seatoun Heights with a stupendous view down the harbour and up the Hutt Valley . |
| 11 | … We stayed first in Colindale . |
| 12 | We travelled first by boat , and planned to spend the night at a hotel on the other side of the lake . |