Example sentences of "at first [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first they assumed that he could find a place among the steep woods behind Camserney and be supplied by their good friends Donald and Aileen Gillies at the mill . |
| 2 | He , like many others , was to learn the truth of the Talmud that , ‘ our passions are like travellers : at first they make a brief stay ; then they are like guests , who visit often ; and then they turn into tyrants , who hold us in their power . ’ |
| 3 | At first they irritate a bit but when you are used to them you find them serviceable . ’ |
| 4 | At first they found it very cold , especially as they moved in just before Christmas . |
| 5 | At first they pinned most of the blame for the loss of jobs on the trade unions and the international recession , and then on high wage settlements . |
| 6 | She told me , too , of the mines , and how some of the young boys were terrified of going down the pit for the first time , but had to go , as there was no other work for them ; and how at first they had been put to work beside their father , loading the coal he cut , until they had overcome their fear . |
| 7 | Well , I think at first they were both afraid to become music specialists , but she knows so much now — good contemporary pop music , not just my music — that she wants to be involved with it and she refuses to be professionally involved unless she has expert knowledge . |
| 8 | Mr and Mrs Robinson , who own the house but have divided it into single bed-sits for Social Security tenants , told police that at first they thought their son had been a victim of cot death syndrome , but a post mortem examination revealed the murder and assault . |
| 9 | But at first they did n't realise what had happened and , instead of stopping the supply and cleaning out the tank , they flushed out the system , which sent the acid down the mains into the homes of the area . |
| 10 | At first they said it would n't be necessary to go to Camelford , then they said it would . |
| 11 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 12 | At first they stood like statues , face to face , bewitched by the strange power of their own emotions . |
| 13 | At first they were only fitted with a route-letter box on the front while the side indicator box contained such interesting displays as : STOPPING CAR TO BISPHAM , ALL STATIONS TO BLACKPOOL and SPECIAL TO FLEETWOOD . |
| 14 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 15 | At first they spent their Saturdays and an occasional evening with a group of friends : shopping , at parties , going to the cinema or occasionally to a disco . |
| 16 | At first they seem too creased to give the butterfly any chance of survival . |
| 17 | This is because at first they lack the strength to hurt , and when they do acquire it they quickly learn that a too-powerful play-attack ends the enjoyable encounter . |
| 18 | I thought at first they must be students . |
| 19 | At first they refused to allow us to land anywhere . |
| 20 | They met between George 's window and the open door at the end of the car and although at first they looked moderately at peace with each other , the encounter deteriorated rapidly . |
| 21 | At first they climbed to the heights to look down on Nature or to survey the scene — encouraging the building of ‘ stations ’ such as the Windermere Octagon ; but after Thomas Gray 's Journal of a Tour in the Lakes ( written in 1769 ) artists began to take their views from the valleys . |
| 22 | At first they insisted that the Commander 's correct name was Timothy John Hamilton Laurence . |
| 23 | At first they met fierce opposition , but the formation of the Republic and the immigration of many new peoples led to a wide open door for evangelical missionary activity . |
| 24 | At first they 'll just want to do nothing but eat and sleep . |
| 25 | At first they came to visit us once a month but then the visits became few and far between . |
| 26 | The pressure was becoming too much for him , and though at first they had taken the challenge with both hands , and had almost made a joke of it , now the months of confinement and running , running and confinement , the eternal hiding , were beginning to take their toll of his spirit . |
| 27 | Mick Cleary argues that claims for the 1995 RWC are not as persuasive as at first they may seem |
| 28 | At first they had no idea that the stretch of pale , shallow water beyond the Cape would present them with anything more than another disappointment . |
| 29 | At first they never went round The Courts ; the route was always to the outskirts and to where houses had gardens , small or large . |
| 30 | AT first they build temporary shelters by weaving a kind of palm branch into matting from which they make little houses . |