Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 2 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 3 | In another case we have managed to eliminate the first galley stage completely The first setting is now carried out at the first page proof stage and even this will save around £50,000 per year — more than the cost of the entire system . |
| 4 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 5 | Do n't give up at the first mistake ; ask God to forgive you and help you to start all over again . |
| 6 | Once again he blasted out at the first attempt , reeling back amid a cloud of sand and covering his eyes . |
| 7 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 8 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 9 | Look carefully at the first gate , then walk through it . |
| 10 | Many give up at the first hurdle before discovering the eventual and significant rewards . ’ |
| 11 | No partnership has a guarantee of happiness , and if you give up at the first hint of discord you 'll never find the rewards a mature and honest relationship can bring . |
| 12 | Make sure you get a copy of the initial ( and any supplementary ) reading list(s) handed out at the first meeting with your class teachers . |
| 13 | Each makeshift arrangement concealed a human larva that would emerge again at the first signs of dawn . |
| 14 | Look again at the first version of the witness ' testimony and answer the question : What did she eat for breakfast ? |
| 15 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 16 | I asked Danny ( Knight ) to put down at the first chance after crossing back over the Channel , and he did ’ . |
| 17 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 18 | No wonder the ‘ troops on the ground ’ are cynical , for they know ‘ real work ’ is for young officers and is something to leave behind at the first opportunity ! |
| 19 | ‘ You 're always undermining me , ’ Avril accused James when he tried to respond to an earlier complaint she had made ( 'You always opt out at the first hint of difficulty' ) , and she reprimanded the children . |
| 20 | Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve . |
| 21 | Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’ |
| 22 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 23 | I 'm not going to lose my head and try and rush out at the first chance . |
| 24 | I 'm to walk along Crane Street from the city end , turn right at the first corner , right again at the first comer and just keep on like that . ’ |
| 25 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 26 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 27 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 28 | Instead , people learn to back off at the first sign that somebody might disapprove . |
| 29 | There is a particularly cold-blooded tycoon lurking in Coopers & Lybrand 's head office — Ian Brummer , a ‘ ruthless ’ computer manager , cleaned up at the first City Monopoly Challenge , virtually bankrupting everyone else in sight . |
| 30 | Wycliffe looked up at the first tier of planks ; the shot must have been fired from up there . |