41.  They had also taught him that the first thing to do with a wounded man was clear his breathing.

42.  We got in there, and the first thing we noticed were the bomb craters.

43.  The first thing is to support as many shows as one can, not forgetting the small local ones.

44.  When presented with the pile of files, the first thing he did was to break them down by month, order within the month, and region.

45.  The first thing I sent to London magazine Girl About Town, a light-hearted article about computer dating, was accepted.

46.  The first thing Morag picked up was an old, lace shawl.

47.  The first thing Louis did when he reached Aachen was to clear himself some political space.

48.  The first thing that has to be established between us is that there is no hierarchy.

49.  This is also the first thing we can tell about a person when meeting for the first time.

50.  The first thing we discovered was that there seemed to be almost no information to go on.