Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything he had loved about me at first became embarrassing . |
| 2 | Some of the other dancers made life difficult for them at first , resenting the physical advantages the South Africans had enjoyed , growing up far away from the hardships of wartime Britain . |
| 3 | When they did not return that night , Richard led a search party for them at first light the following morning . |
| 4 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |
| 5 | Perhaps they were afraid of me at first . |
| 6 | Michael Abbell worked at the Justice Department for 17 years until 1984 , the last five of them as first the director and later deputy director of the Office of International Affairs . |
| 7 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 8 | People did not want to hold hands with either of them at first , but without her red cloak to remind them of sin , they quickly forgot who Izzie was . |
| 9 | When the three appeared for school they were wary of her at first but she was able to summon sufficient energy to disguise her lack of it and they were completely at ease before they left for school . |
| 10 | Kevin was frightened of her at first but she was good and , like him , she was alone with no friends . |
| 11 | We 've got no sighting of her after first thing Saturday morning . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't think much of it at first , but then something started to waft around the corridors , ’ shudders Bea . |
| 13 | Consequently I was very interested to read the article ‘ Tower of Babel ’ by Tania V. Guha ( May/June 1992 ) since I realised that I could now without too much struggle understand most of it , or perhaps I should more truthfully say about 80 per cent of it on first reading . |
| 14 | At one end of this seeming arcane map or game-board an enormous plascrystal bowl held thousands of what at first sight appeared to be bloodshot ochreous eyeballs . |
| 15 | They had to be flexible , too , adjusting to the new post-war broadcast medium of television ; then to a new scale and range of programmes , increasingly controversial , and to changes in the society they served ; and above all to the introduction of what at first was known as ‘ commercial television ’ in 1955 . |
| 16 | In the centre of the piece was a carving of a shoemaker resisting four shaggy devils who were dragging him from the embraces of what at first Athelstan thought was a young lady but , on looking closer , -realised that with his tail and close-cropped hair , it was a depiction of a male prostitute . |
| 17 | As the number of counts increases the more fortunate of the continuing candidates are to be observed making their bizarre progress to victory by acquiring , like Ruari Quinn , miscellaneous parcels of votes of anything but first preference . |
| 18 | ‘ There were only three of us at first , and we were up the field all day , every day . |
| 19 | It 's bound to be a bit strange for you at first , but saying you wo n't make love to your own husband in your own house because of the servants … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I felt like you at first , then I realised what it meant . |
| 21 | ‘ I was against it at first . |
| 22 | I thought they were joking with me at first . |
| 23 | There was the most tremendous row — Sykes refused to go with them at first , and the master was brought in to persuade him . |
| 24 | ‘ Did n't I tell you you 'd fall in love with her at first sight ? ’ |
| 25 | First , and rather obviously , subjects unfamiliar with a rather complex dynamic decision problem under risk have difficulty in coping with it on first acquaintance . |
| 26 | It requires a series of step-by-step familiarization ‘ lessons ’ , in which at first things only remotely feline are presented to the victim . |
| 27 | and if it 's a tight one , and you 're going round it in first , really tight one , then what you need to be doing really is slipping the clutch |
| 28 | I took it , I , he said well try it and we went round it in first and I went and it went rrah |
| 29 | Do n't accept money or sweets or a gift from anyone without first checking with your parents . |
| 30 | There are , however , many cases in which differentiation occurs within what at first looks like a homogeneous sheet of tissue . |