Sentence examples for first thing that gets from inspiring English sources

The first thing that gets whacked — and with a hatchet — is defense".

"The first thing that gets cut when times are tough is culture.

"Whatever decision that I make, that's going to be the first thing that gets done," said Anthony, who can be a free agent after this season.

"The really sad reality is the first thing that gets cut is the music program," he says, forcing many teachers, parents and students to fend for themselves.

"Arts is generally the first thing that gets cut by government as they don't understand the scale of the industry and how valuable it is," he says.

But the very first thing that gets passed down, in Burnett's view, is an intense gendering the idea and impossible ideal of being a man, starting with the subjection to violence as a child and continuing to the infliction of violence as an adult.

It was the first thing that got me interested in music again.

"The first thing that got us into First Night is there's a lot of things happening in New Rochelle," said Jeffrey E. Krause, executive director of the New Rochelle Y.M.C.A., which runs the city's event, now in its second year.

"The first thing that got us interested was how these old trees are doing, and what are some of the physiological mechanisms that allow the old trees to stay alive," Richard Thomas, a biology researcher at the University of West Virginia, told LiveScience.

The first thing that got my attention was the little tidbit that there's been a mill on the site at Laverstoke since, well, probably since 903 A.D., but definitely since 1086, according to written records from the time of William the Conqueror.

The first thing that got me playing was my older brothers," he says, "but as far as having a band goes, it was in the mid-1990s wheNirvanana was on the radio and stuff, and that was the perfect time to be fifteen or sixteen years old and wanting to start a band.