Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | After at first showing little interest in the work , museum authorities informed the owners of ‘ Les villas a Bordighera ’ in May 1992 that it could no longer leave the country . |
| 2 | On the day of the launch of At First Sight at London Colney , on September 20 , among many moving moments as crews meet up and shared their memories , there was a most poignant presentation . |
| 3 | More recently , we have learned how to use electromagnetic fields to give particles energies of at first millions and then thousands of millions of electron volts . |
| 4 | It 's like in first like . |
| 5 | And she 'd give me that look , like at first , half wary , half defiant , as if she had a secret to defend from me . |
| 6 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 7 | Certainly not to the same degree of hurt , but a taste of what rejection was like at first hand . |
| 8 | She yanked her seatbelt free then gave a squeak of protest as Penry pulled her into his arms to kiss her with a ferocity she fought against at first . |
| 9 | At the end of the first month of the 1916–17 season City reached new goal-scoring heights , showing a ‘ superiority over the opposition to an extent seldom met with in first class football ’ ( Yorkshire Evening News ) . |
| 10 | Hibiscus , frangipani , bougainvillaea and the glorious colours of the flame tree were a visual feast and a challenge for the camera which I felt unable to cope with at first . |
| 11 | Being asked to go on a committee may be something we tend to shy away from at first . |
| 12 | And when he began to have the confidence to talk to us , he would have long discussions with people about films which he had never actually seen , but which he could pretend to have seen , since he made a point of reading all the reviews of the new films and musicals when he found out that that was what people liked to talk about on first meetings . |
| 13 | This article comes out of the familiar experience of being drawn to a particular image , or set of images , without at first knowing why , and the attempt to account for this feeling . |
| 14 | ‘ She 'd have a lot to get used to at first , ’ Rose said absently as she scanned through the letter . |
| 15 | Since statistics rarely mean what they appear to at first glance , we should , however , look at these figures with caution . |
| 16 | Well this is a big advantage when it comes to reading the literature , because it means you do not have to at first learn the basics of this science . |
| 17 | she 's one of them people who she might be a little bit like hard to talk to at first |
| 18 | For at first it looks an extremely daunting task . |
| 19 | They review this possibility annually and he explained that when they have identified children who will go back they let them go into mainstream school for at first a morning and then one day a week . |
| 20 | Here , though , the procedure of the auctioneer was somewhat different , for at first the most attractive girls were auctioned to the highest bidders and then a sort of reverse auction took place in which the unattractive ones were distributed : instead of ascending , the bidding descended until the man prepared to accept the least payment got the girl . |
| 21 | At at first glance I would probably decide I 'd I 'd actually enjoy the golf club one but I 'm sure it does n't pay as much money . |
| 22 | For Case 2a , we could employ some search of the lexicon on our partial information , such as by first letter of the word , approximate word length and word shape . |
| 23 | But nothing has has really changed it 's surely implicit that green field sites will have to be released to meet the justifiable needs for development erm that there are ways clearly to minimize the impact by by first redeveloping the existing sites by by releasing sites in less sensitive locations , or developing sites that have minimal impact on on existing settle settlements or patterns of development un unless in exceptional circumstances there is for example the need for a new settlement . |