The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

The first thing every morning when she washed her face she could see the scar on her chin where he'd cut her with a boot cleat, and maybe she saw him heaving it again, the dirty sock popping out as it flew.

Due to the fact that building codes and regulations vary so much throughout the country, the first thing to do is to find out what, if any, they are.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

Perhaps that was the first thing to do.

When we examine what each master says was his first collage we see that much the same thing happens in each.

And the same thing, more or less, can be said of the contents of Picasso's first collage.

almost everyone, on first hearing one of his own sessions on tape, expressed some desire to take the whole thing over again.

It seems to me, the first thing you've got to do, to be happy, is to face up to your problems, no matter what they may be.

One thing should be clear to both husband and wife -- neither pain nor profuse bleeding has to occur when the hymen is ruptured during the first sex act.

If one wishes to discuss a literary figure who uses folklore in his work, the first thing he must realize is that the literary figure is probably part of this ignorant American public.

wetting a wart with this saliva on wakening the first thing in the morning was supposed to cause it to disappear after only a few treatments, and strangely enough many warts did just that.

In one thing the higher critics, like the modernists, however, overreached themselves, in claiming that the Gospel of John was not written in John's time but well after the first century, perhaps as late as 150 A.D..

It is no common thing for a listener ( critical or otherwise ) to hear a singer `` live '' for the first time only after he has died.

For many immigrants, for many children, the first thing they knew of Israel and freedom was your mother.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

In his Materials for a History of the Baptists in Rhode Island, Edwards wrote :" The first mover himself for it Baptist college in 1762 was laughed at as a projector of a thing impracticable.

Research conducted at the Victoria University of Wellington showed that breasts are often the first thing men look at, and for a longer time than other body parts.

What will you consider the first thing to be done?

The first 14 verses of the Gospel of John are devoted to the divinity of Jesus as the Logos, usually translated as " Word ", along with his pre-existence, and they emphasize the cosmic significance of Christ, e. g.: " All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Discovering the first thing the wounded soldiers requested was a glass of cold milk, he arranged for movie starlets to meet them and pour the milk for them.

The phrase " Cogito ergo sum " ( I think, therefore I am ) is also commonly associated with Descartes ' theory, because in his own methodological doubt, doubting everything he previously knew in order to start from a blank slate, the first thing that he could not logically bring himself to doubt was his own existence: " I do not exist " would be a contradiction in terms ; the act of saying that one does not exist assumes that someone must be making the statement in the first place.

Lloyd Lewis wrote that when he first knew Carl in 1916, Sandburg was making $27.50 a week writing features for the Day Book and eating sparse luncheons in one-arm restaurants.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.

He was invulnerable to attack, but he could be handled, Mickey knew, if he could be brought to make the first move.

I talked first, telling him everything I knew about Seaton and his house and domestic arrangements.

As Player stepped on the first tee he knew that Palmer had birdied the first two holes and already was 2 under par for the day.

But by the time the first crackling of spring came around, we both knew we were hopelessly in love.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes and before I could read them for myself I had come to love the words of them.

Elizabeth's first Lady Mistress, Margaret, Lady Bryant, wrote that she was " as toward a child and as gentle of conditions as ever I knew any in my life ".

" I asked whether the Japanese would become Christians if I went with him to this country, and he replied that they would not do so immediately, but would first ask me many questions and see what I knew.

He knew most of the writers of science fiction in the first half of the twentieth-century.

The turn-of-the-century building that Harpo called " the first real home they ever knew " ( in his memoir Harpo Speaks ) was populated with European immigrants, mostly artisans.

Pelton knew Lindh was receiving his first medical treatment since being shot in the leg more than a week prior and had been given morphine by a medic prior to Pelton's interview.

Thus, Sterne lost his chances for clerical advancement but discovered his real talents ; until the completion of this first work, " he hardly knew that he could write at all, much less with humour so as to make his reader laugh ".

* These systems can be hard to maintain, improve, and expand because there is a general lack of understanding of the system ; the staff who were experts on it have retired or forgotten what they knew about it, and staff who entered the field after it became " legacy " never learned about it in the first place.

Alan Page later said he knew we would dominate them after only the first couple of plays.

The first reference to 3 John is in the middle of the third century ; Eusebius says that Origen knew of both 2 and 3 John, however Origen is reported as saying " all do not consider them genuine.

The day he saw the tenth grader for the first time, he knew he had found a natural athlete.