Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite . |
| 2 | Michael Abbell worked at the Justice Department for 17 years until 1984 , the last five of them as first the director and later deputy director of the Office of International Affairs . |
| 3 | It was a closely fought struggle in Grade Three between the two Ballynahinch teams , with just one point separating them for first and second places , with the ‘ B ’ set just edging into the lead for top honours . |
| 4 | It seems to me of first importance to confront this kind of question realistically and not to discredit one 's cause by refusing to admit that the clash exists . |
| 5 | What are you like first thing in the morning ? |
| 6 | They will contact a special poisons information centre and advise you on first aid and medical treatment . |
| 7 | When walking the course , it is important to note how each fence strikes you on first impression because this is how the horse will see it . |
| 8 | You may wish to take advantage of our special arrangement with British Rail , entitling you to first class return rail travel from your home town anywhere in mainland England , Scotland or Wales to Gatwick Airport . |
| 9 | before before the meeting proper may I refer you to first of all the voice amplification system is currently working but er there are some difficulties with it and it may during the day deteriorate to a state that it is more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 10 | She at first regarded the episode as a nightmare : ‘ I dreamed I seemed to you all to have died . ’ |
| 11 | Never having taken much interest in the garden at Four Winds , other than it being a place in which to read or play solitary games , she at first decided that it was probably best to let him have his way ; but his silences began to unnerve her , as much as his occasional seemingly innocent remarks about his previous employers . |
| 12 | The plates flickered past , solemn and beautiful faces , sleeping soldiers , angels carrying flutes , and then a page fell open more easily because , slipped into it , she found a sheet of the villa 's notepaper on which was typed what she at first thought to be a shopping-list , but , as she began to read , discovered it was no such thing . |
| 13 | In interview , she at first denied being dishonest but later admitted it . |
| 14 | Her current job is marketing controller for South East sales region , but when she left University she at first had no idea what she wanted to do . |
| 15 | When the audience broke into applause on first beholding the characteristically extravagant set she at first appeared dumbfounded and then sat back in her seat rather stiffly . |
| 16 | She at first refuses to help him , suspecting a trap to catch her out in witchery , but as the clerk , Wilekin , persists she finally agrees to solve the problem , accepting twenty shillings in payment . |
| 17 | It 's bound to be a bit strange for you at first , but saying you wo n't make love to your own husband in your own house because of the servants … ’ |
| 18 | Then he looked more closely , and exclaimed : ‘ Ruth — I did n't recognise you at first ! ’ |
| 19 | But I did n't recognize you at first . |
| 20 | Flat brush strokes and dragged ones were compared and there was a realization that ‘ … if you isolate any area of paint … you 're looking at a much more complex thing than you at first thought you were ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't realise it was you at first . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I felt like you at first , then I realised what it meant . |
| 23 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 24 | I did n't find you at first , so I went to the bathroom . |
| 25 | In the French class nowadays the important thing is to SPEAK French — the sound of your voice in French may seem strange to you at first but you have a go right away and you will see what fun it can be . |
| 26 | they put everything do n't you at first when you go up there all the family there . |
| 27 | You re first on the list , Sergeant . |
| 28 | So you know , I mean that 's that 's the er So I 'll see what Kevin comes back to me with first . |
| 29 | We at first wanted to know each other , then knowing became friends , and every day as our knowledge increased , greater liking , deeper sympathy , and so on to love and feeling our love , knowing it to be true , pure , and everlasting ; then the desire for the perfect life of unity , and then of giving the world the benefit of our love by a little child . |
| 30 | After all , it 's now only afternoon tea , instead of lunch as we at first thought it would be . ’ |