Example sentences of "we [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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1 | WHICH DEPARTMENT SHALL WE EAT INTO FIRST ? |
2 | You know , sometimes we walk in first thing in the morning and we start straightaway and we forget to turn the er closed to open . |
3 | But when we came at first there were these erm there were these er street street musicians you know . |
4 | The rain had let up and we walked at first , then as the first drops turned into a steady drizzle , we took a cab . |
5 | As my son had been born on 5 March of that year , we talked at first about children , and he observed somewhat wistfully that the experience of having children must , despite all its responsibilities , be a unique sort of pleasure . |
6 | We proceed by first setting out the difference equations for the variables and in this case . |
7 | Even though the chances of owning a boarding house were less then the people we listened to first believed , they had a distinctive orientation to work which no other group expressed . |
8 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
9 | ‘ We thought at first that she had hidden herself deliberately , ’ said Nanette , ‘ and did n't bother too much . |
10 | He says having been there , the crash is n't over such a wide area as we thought at first . |
11 | We thought at first the Chinese had eaten all the other birds ! |
12 | We worried at first that the children might be sceptical and uninterested ; but we soon found that nine year olds have already heard of atoms in garbled ways from comics and really want to know about them . |
13 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
14 | oh we might have a oh we did at first , when we first had the record player years ago did n't we ? |
15 | You put big heading Paul , what did we do first , what did we talk about first ? |
16 | What did we talk about first Paul ? |
17 | Listen , what did we talk about first ? |
18 | Derek Hampson , assistant manager of the RSPCA home , said : ‘ The dog was much older than we had at first been informed and he was very sick . |
19 | Yes I mean basically we need to first of all decide , I think this is what we 're deciding in the first instance , which option for the provision of information you find the most helpful . |