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Example sentences for "first thing"

  • He sailed into me, first thing, for taking work from you.

  • First thing he'd do would be to look up the phone number of the nearest asylum.

  • We're going up to Michamac, first thing tomorrow," remarked Griffith in a casual tone.

  • First thing I know, he'll be saying I did it!

  • First thing I knew he moved, and I looked up, and there was Dorry looking me right in the eye!

  • First thing you do is to go up and speak to the lady of the house and the lady of the party.

  • He gave away all of his little jobs to the rest of us first thing, and said he was content with what he had; but, pshaw!

  • First thing in the morning, Barbara and Ursula hung out the garland and name that Kate and Thekla had made, which had been taken in over-night, after the Queen's procession.

  • Such thirst was on me that I commonly drank the water off, first thing.

  • I met him on my way home, and he asked me first thing if I had seen Sir Cat.

  • First thing I thought about, soon as the war was over, was to come along and hunt you up.

  • First thing I knew a guard came along and informed me mighty politely that I wasn't in a smoking-carriage.

  • I phoned Scotland Yard and the Admiralty first thing.

  • First thing, though, how’d you ever come to get pinched by Doogan?

  • Oh, I guess I know men; and I sized you up, first thing, in the court-room.

  • Now, first thing, I want to tell you something.

  • That song and dance you threw up to the Old Boy over on the bench, about your bein’ an electric inventor in hard luck, caught my eye, first thing.

  • First thing they'll do is kick aside all the cards of men named Steve Donnell.

  • First thing to do, he thought, is find someone halfway friendly-looking and ask if there's a central directory of citizens.

  • First thing tomorrow we'll get you a decent set of clothes, so you can walk down the street without having people yell 'Spacer!

  • So de first thing I knows, I's in de army away off east from here, somewhar dis side of St. Louis and in Tennessee and Arkansas and other places.

  • After dat, de hell start to pop, 'cause de first thing Delbridge do is cut de rations.

  • First thing I saw in jail Was a pot of peas.

  • And if you tryin' to get hot, first thing, you can pull of my blue shirt you put on this morning.

  • First thing I must get my discharge from the Force.

  • First thing we know, there'll be a cylinder head blowing out, or a volcanic eruption, or something of that kind.

  • First thing we know, he'll duck down into some hollow, and that'll be the last of him for the night.

  • First thing we know, it'll be daylight, and then Will and George'll be calling out the police to find us.

  • Th' first thing he done was to get himsilf arristed.

  • First thing was a wash-bowl and pitcher, and to hear Mark talk about it you would have thought the King of England was all broken up because he was so far off he couldn't be there to bid on it.

  • F-first thing's to fix the windows," says he.

  • F-f-first thing in the mornin'," says Mark.

  • First thing we know it'll be dark and we can't find even Jenny and Shep.

  • Now, first thing to do is to get that keg of water.

  • First thing is to find a camping spot," proposed Harry, briskly.

  • We panned out five dollars in color, first thing.

  • The very first thing," declared the old gentleman.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "first thing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first book; first call; first care; first concert; first course; first duty; first editions; first glimpse; first hearing; first impressions; first journey; first lecture; first loved; first period; first prince; first reading; first story; first supposed; first they; first used; first voyage; first week; first went; non pas; replied the young lady; wood ashes