Example sentences of "we [vb base] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want them first of all to be authoritative — and there 's no greater authority than the RHS . |
| 2 | woman — we put you first ! |
| 3 | woman — we put you first ! |
| 4 | Normally we heat it first and add biscuit so that the dogs have a warm , mixed meal , but tonight Odd-Knut is considering giving it to them frozen to save time . |
| 5 | ‘ Central Office did not know the name of the child until Wednesday morning when we read it first in the Independent and subsequently in the Daily Express . ’ |
| 6 | But we ensure we first know what we are talking about . |
| 7 | Looking over Dostoevsky 's shoulder , we find him first writing ‘ small yellow glass ’ , then deleting ‘ small ’ ; and writing ‘ water ’ then adding ‘ yellow warm ’ to the water , then deleting ‘ warm ’ — the final text uniting an apocalyptic starkness of yellow meets yellow with the topicality of Petersburg 's notoriously filthy water supply , a subject of much comment and complaint in the newspapers . |
| 8 | A Fraud Squad detective said : ‘ I hope for his sake we find him first . ’ |
| 9 | Whenever we work with data values that have been generated by a growth process , we will have a better chance of revealing regularities in their behaviour if we convert them first to logs . |
| 10 | but i if we take it first of all back well wh okay what was happening in that microcosm , and then the extent to which you can generalize . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing , if we reach him first . |