Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] at the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look carefully at the first gate , then walk through it . |
| 2 | Many give up at the first hurdle before discovering the eventual and significant rewards . ’ |
| 3 | No partnership has a guarantee of happiness , and if you give up at the first hint of discord you 'll never find the rewards a mature and honest relationship can bring . |
| 4 | Look again at the first version of the witness ' testimony and answer the question : What did she eat for breakfast ? |
| 5 | ‘ You 're always undermining me , ’ Avril accused James when he tried to respond to an earlier complaint she had made ( 'You always opt out at the first hint of difficulty' ) , and she reprimanded the children . |
| 6 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 7 | I 'm not going to lose my head and try and rush out at the first chance . |
| 8 | I 'm to walk along Crane Street from the city end , turn right at the first corner , right again at the first comer and just keep on like that . ’ |
| 9 | B : yes A : turn left at the first roundabout … |
| 10 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 11 | We bore right at the first gate — the left track leads up to a farmhouse — and later , along a grassy track with pine forest on the left , right again , where a dry stone wall creates a Y-junction . |