Example sentences of "i [vb base] first [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , I propose first to employ implicit honesty . |
| 2 | For this purpose , I propose first to discuss the several bloom shapes and forms , then the growth and habit forms and variations , and then progressively to pass on to the many breed and race classifications . |
| 3 | I want first to say something nice about the Under-Secretary of State and , on the record , to thank him for his decision in the case of Younis Patel , who was in prison in Leicester for a number of months . |
| 4 | I want first to focus on the latter meaning , and to describe in some detail what teachers are talking about when they say they are stressed , or suffering from stress . |
| 5 | As the nondrinker I get first go ( why ? ) and it takes my breath away . |
| 6 | In fact , I remember first hearing the song . |
| 7 | I remember first seeing the shop when I was a student up the road at Chelsea Polytechnic . |
| 8 | ‘ I desire first to go to the palace of Westminster , my lord , there to greet the queen my mother and tender my condolences — and to share the grief of my family . ’ |
| 9 | To make this claim plausible — a claim which , it seems to me , lies in a grey zone between the conceptual and the empirical — I wish first to offer what seems to me the most likely account of the evolution of syntactic structure . |
| 10 | I need first team football and I 'm disappointed that the loan period to Middlesbrough did not materialise . ’ |
| 11 | I have first tried to show how their origins are to be found in certain political ideologies . |