Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] at the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 2 | Before midday we arrive at the first village and are met by the Mukhtar , Hadji Hanna . |
| 3 | The professors with Middle-European names spend their lives working out what the great inner secret is , that thing you feel at the first glance . |
| 4 | There are a couple of false summits on Schiehallion , and by the time we arrived at the first , the beginnings of a blizzard were forming . |
| 5 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |