Example sentences of "say [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Confound it , Lovat , " she had said upon first setting eyes on Topaz . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought that they were extinct , ’ Zach had said on first seeing her riding it . |
| 3 | He finds it difficult to describe his feelings and says at first ‘ I just walked out . ’ |
| 4 | He says at first they were friendly , now they 're not . |
| 5 | Jim Wagstaffe says at first he was shocked … and then delighted by the news that his wife was expecting . |
| 6 | That particular ghost was said at first , because she 'd lived in a hulking great castle with fields and forests and things , and when she saw it again it was a council estate and , as I said , a supermarket . |
| 7 | I could n't hear what he was saying at first , then I got bits of it . |
| 8 | ‘ They found this girl … ’ was all she said at first . |
| 9 | Among our samples , for instance , 79 per cent of the spouses said at first interview that they wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home , compared with 36 per cent of the non-spouses . |
| 10 | American Airlines spokesman Ian Burns said at first the service was a tremendous success , but the winter passenger numbers were less than expected . |
| 11 | Inspector Mick Barry , of Witham police , said at first officers thought the two older youths may have led the nine-year-old on but it turned out he played a full part in all the crimes . |
| 12 | I was in bed for a week with concussion and the doctor said at first he thought I 'd got a broken pelvis . |
| 13 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |