Example sentences of "[adv] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Really sad , because you loved him so much at first . ’ |
| 2 | She looked at it idly at first and then with increasing curiosity . |
| 3 | The regularity of your periods should not be affected , but some bleeding may occur after the fitting or between periods , especially at first . |
| 4 | Especially at first , you may have to keep reminding the patient to sit upright and take the food to his mouth , rather than letting his face droop towards his plate . |
| 5 | It 's little tiny things that matter , especially at first when you 're going into a Home , they are very important . |
| 6 | After the menopause the vagina becomes drier and less elastic , so husbands may need to be a bit more gentle , especially at first , and a little more persevering . |
| 7 | The distinction is important , because if you are very sensitive to yeast , even the smallest amount can make you ill , so scrupulous avoidance is necessary , especially at first . |
| 8 | Also , the raids may frequently , and especially at first , have appeared to pose little threat to Æthelred 's position as king , and so his circumstances were arguably not comparable with those faced by Alfred , Æthelstan , Edmund Ironside and Harold Godwinsson . |
| 9 | Rather those , perhaps at first rare , types best equipped to deal with the changed conditions may have this characteristic . |
| 10 | There were a few young men who developed female characteristics , unconsciously perhaps at first but certainly consciously when they became aware of the power that these gave them . |
| 11 | In the prosperous 1980s many individuals found they were able to consider buying a second home in Europe , perhaps at first for holidays but later with retirement in view . |
| 12 | The killing is repeated on ritual occasions , perhaps at first because the protection the totem gives them is not enough , or because they need to band together again to re-enact the crime which binds them all together , although they use a surrogate for the crime , not the actual father again . |
| 13 | The whole idea behind the I D S sounds perhaps at first as if its a little bit like an old missionary organization which has been set up to help the natives . |
| 14 | Resuming the journey from Stone House Bridge , the road now starts a long climb to its summit , rising gently at first and with the Dee an inseparable companion alongside . |
| 15 | Apply your power gently at first . |
| 16 | Exercise , gently at first , and let it be a part of your programme of change . |
| 17 | Gently at first , and then with one sharp movement , she opened the door . |
| 18 | Gently at first , but as it aroused her he opened his mouth to take in the full upward curve of her left breast . |
| 19 | It begins gently at first , a pipe bridge , a lattice canal footbridge and an arched cable bridge , and then develops in earnest as sliproads flail through the air , the M6 crosses , the Birmingham to Lichfield railway passes through and ever more sliproads arc over until the canal passes into a large box tunnel with two towpaths below the A38M Aston Expressway before emerging into the relative simplicity of Salford Junction below the M6 . |
| 20 | Their limbs entwined , he slowly and gently at first and then with a mounting fierceness made love to her again , his eyes gleaming with the triumph of possession as her pliant body instantly surrendered , both to his sensual touch and the low , husky murmur of his voice . |
| 21 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 22 | He says only at first it was all new to me . |
| 23 | It 's bad enough at first but then it gets worse even as they keep me because they found more , they found two more and that was while I was here for Christ 's sake while they held me while things were still happening more stuff came in while they were questioning me and they looked at me with disbelief horror disgust and I was going What ? |
| 24 | There 's a graduate student at AMS who 's Japanese , over from Osaka on a six-month exchange deal , companionable enough at first , of course , but becoming increasingly glazed and remote . |
| 25 | Life at the Novotel in Le Touquet was comfortable enough at first . |
| 26 | The only hard part about this operation was the regular watchkeeping split between our six-man crew throughout twenty four hours , but the time passed pleasantly enough at first . |
| 27 | The men that stepped out of the car looked suitable enough at first glance . |
| 28 | Not cold , so at first quite pleasant . |
| 29 | Virtually all libraries did nominate someone as having responsibility for training ( only six libraries did not ) so at first sight it would appear that theoretically at least item ( 1 ) above has been largely fulfilled . |
| 30 | Young puppies do not always have full control of their sphincter muscles and so at first are not able to control the passing of urine and faeces . |