Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [noun] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governor expressed his disillusionment in letters to Penn and others : ‘ the hosts of mosquitoes are worse than armed men , yet the men without arms [ are ] worse than they ’ ; and attacked what he saw as Quaker hypocrisy : ‘ each praying with his neighbour on First Days , and then preying on him the other six ’ . |
| 2 | Leith shared many a cup of coffee with Rosemary after that , and although Rosemary seemed reluctant to talk of her marriage at first , it gradually emerged that Derek Talbot was a womaniser who 'd treated his wife shamefully . |
| 3 | Her face closed in and she eyed him with a return of the defiance and challenge he had seen in her eyes at first . |
| 4 | Yes , the door will be slammed in your face at first . |
| 5 | After completing his PhD in ornithology at the University of Moscow in 1966 , he published the Birds of Vietnam , for which he was honoured by his university with first prize for conservation achievement in 1982 . |