Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [adj] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , although they were amused at first , I do n't think they liked it and , after a while , he was sent for treatment . |
| 2 | So seriously indeed did the Residents take themselves that they were unwilling at first even to allow the stationing of subordinate European officers in the districts . |
| 3 | I used to take it personally , and I was wretched at first . |
| 4 | But you got into the Soviet Union and it 's difficult at first for me to get emotionally connected to the story . |
| 5 | Then the letters came fairly regularly , but they were strange at first — sometimes almost assuming the old relationship , sometimes defensively impersonal , as if he were afraid — we both were — to take too much for granted . |
| 6 | A few strategic blows with a hammer will achieve this without shattering the whole thing , but it 's prudent to first bail out as much water as possible from the trap . |