Sentence examples for told first from inspiring English sources

Nothing would make complete sense without that being told first".

Captain Kearney took a breath and told First Sgt. La Monta Caldwell: "Brennan's probably going to die.

"There's only so many times you can be told, 'First put up with this, then things can change,'" he says.

It was reputed to be here that Lord Kitchener famously told first world war recruits that "your country needs you".

He told first responders and medical professionals that the girl, Lauren Belius, was the Antichrist and he had been sent by God to kill her.

Anyone with business at the Islamic court is told first to go to a certain hospital, donate a pint of blood, then return with the receipt.

But he revealed that he told first-base coach Mick Kelleher at the time that he thought it was broken.

The chapters are interlaced, with Ruth and Nat's told third-person, and Cora and Ruth's told first-person by Cora.

Howard Clowes, a lawyer at Gray Cary who handles venture capital deals, said he told first-time entrepreneurs not to bother venture capitalists until they hooked up with an experienced manager.

This is how we are beginning to cope in a time when active soldiers' stories are told first-hand on blogs: by drawing pictures and retreating into a stylised world.

But – Boyle's dismally predictable Israel-baiting aside – one of the most interesting aspects of the whole row was that the parents of a Down's syndrome child who complained had not merely heard OF the aren't-handicapped-kids-uncool "joke" but had actually heard it being told first-hand, as they were in the audience of Boyle's live show.