Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His many-sided aesthetic interests led him to surround himself with first editions , Bristol glass , mother-of-pearl knick-knacks , and , above all , his notable collection of musical boxes ( later given to the Pitt Rivers Museum , Oxford ) . |
| 2 | The absence of Neil Lenham ( how many times have I written that , I wonder ? ) handed Keith Greenfield a more regular opportunity to open , one this Brighton beau has grabbed enthusiastically , twice registering 55-overs bests , narrowly missing a Sunday best and forming such a productive partnership with Jamie Hall that Smith found himself at first drop for the initial one-dayers . |
| 3 | Well , when you release you have to do it in stages , so when we introduced the owls to their new home from the aviary we limited their freedom to the box itself at first . |
| 4 | It is perhaps arguable , though , that we should recognize structures based on assignment of equation where the two intensional elements are properties ; thus a sentence such as small is beautiful might be represented as : ( 36 ) small is beautiful On the other hand , it may be that the human mind only represents such an equational assignment to itself by first making an entity-concept out of the ideas on each side . |
| 5 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 6 | I hated seeing myself at first — we all did . |
| 7 | I am hallucinating , I said to myself at first : the strain has affected my mind . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't believe it myself at first , until I started to notice little changes in Dowd . ’ |
| 9 | I was not altogether explicit about it to myself at first , but the tactics clarified themselves in my mind . |
| 10 | All this was owned by the d'Urbervilles , or the Stoke-d'Urbervilles as they called themselves at first . |