Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [art] first [noun sg] " 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 | Do n't give up at the first mistake ; ask God to forgive you and help you to start all over again . |
| 5 | Once again he blasted out at the first attempt , reeling back amid a cloud of sand and covering his eyes . |
| 6 | Many give up at the first hurdle before discovering the eventual and significant rewards . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 10 | I asked Danny ( Knight ) to put down at the first chance after crossing back over the Channel , and he did ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I 'm not going to lose my head and try and rush out at the first chance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 15 | Instead , people learn to back off at the first sign that somebody might disapprove . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wycliffe looked up at the first tier of planks ; the shot must have been fired from up there . |
| 18 | He made a show of pursuit , but gave up at the first intersection , returning to Jude breathless . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |
| 21 | The stem of this one was easily broken and often the head would fly off at the first stroke . |