Example sentences of "[pron] look [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the areas I looked at first was the so-called ancillary services — that is cleaning , catering and laundry . |
| 2 | George , whom I looked for first , was in his office eating a fat ragged beef sandwich and drinking diet Coke . |
| 3 | Who 's did she look at first ? |
| 4 | Everything looked at first glance the same . |
| 5 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 6 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 7 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 8 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 9 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
| 10 | Even though it looks at first it 's a ridiculous thing to do . |
| 11 | ‘ Not as bad as it looked on first assessment . |
| 12 | She was polite about the leeks and lumpy cheese and said a similar thing could be done with endives and it looked at first as if the lunch was going to prove a slightly awkward affair . |
| 13 | It looked at first as if she had been drinking blood . |
| 14 | The nurse said of course they could use the phone , but they should have themselves looked at first . |
| 15 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |
| 16 | ( 10 ) I had myself to look to first of all . |