Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One slightly frustrating aspect of this book is the lack of a bibliography , meaning that one has to go hunting in the footnotes for first references . |
| 2 | Like most basic rules , they can be broken very successfully and creatively sometimes , but it is best to stick to the rules at first . |
| 3 | The numbers of seats secured approximated to the quotas of first preference votes expressed and the only exception to this was the special case of North Down ( see below ) . |
| 4 | The families of the victims were reluctant to co-operate with the police at first because they felt the staff at the hospital where Allitt was a student nurse — the Grantham and Kesteven — had done a wonderful job . |
| 5 | The protagonist laughs at the letters at first and refuses to answer them , but eventually her curiosity is piqued and she engages in a prolonged correspondence with her admirer . |
| 6 | They differ in that when the impressions are described in the accounts of first meetings , the situation is important to the impression . |