Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | You weave uncertainly along the road at first , but soon you pick up speed and rush smoothly forward , and your heart leaps with joy at the mastery of the thing . |
| 2 | He oiled it , pumped up the tyres and held it for me while I had a go , just in the yard at first . |
| 3 | At the end of the first day 's hearing before us we were told that W. 's condition had deteriorated rapidly since the hearing at first instance . |
| 4 | When he comes back to the room at first everything looks the same . |
| 5 | The attack began on 8 March and went well for the Italians at first . |
| 6 | The redevelopment proposals put forward for the site at first envisaged that all the shopping should go underground . |