Example sentences of "[prep] at 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 | And she 'd give me that look , like at first , half wary , half defiant , as if she had a secret to defend from me . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Certainly not to the same degree of hurt , but a taste of what rejection was like at first hand . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Being asked to go on a committee may be something we tend to shy away from at first . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ She 'd have a lot to get used to at first , ’ Rose said absently as she scanned through the letter . |
| 12 | Since statistics rarely mean what they appear to at first glance , we should , however , look at these figures with caution . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | she 's one of them people who she might be a little bit like hard to talk to at first |
| 15 | For at first it looks an extremely daunting task . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |