Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I felt like you at first , then I realised what it meant . |
| 2 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 3 | You come to us at First National Bank for a loan . |
| 4 | I took it , I , he said well try it and we went round it in first and I went and it went rrah |
| 5 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 6 | It seems to me of first importance to confront this kind of question realistically and not to discredit one 's cause by refusing to admit that the clash exists . |
| 7 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |