Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But all the time they forage they are alert , ready to withdraw instantly at the first hint of danger . |
| 32 | B : yes A : turn left at the first roundabout … |
| 33 | He made a show of pursuit , but gave up at the first intersection , returning to Jude breathless . |
| 34 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 35 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 36 | We bore right at the first gate — the left track leads up to a farmhouse — and later , along a grassy track with pine forest on the left , right again , where a dry stone wall creates a Y-junction . |
| 37 | Yet what was certain was that God would strike punitively at the first sign of sin , and the worst sin in a ruler was pride . |
| 38 | The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar . |
| 39 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |
| 40 | The stem of this one was easily broken and often the head would fly off at the first stroke . |