Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I was on first names terms . |
| 2 | ‘ I was at first . |
| 3 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 4 | Years later I was at first comforted to read that an adult man could express similar sentiments about himself : ‘ When I consider others I can easily believe that their bodies express their personalities and that the two are inseparable . |
| 5 | On the conscious level I was at first glad to get back to school for the summer term . |
| 6 | Having negotiated the pitch with difficulty in the wet , I was at first relieved at having passed beneath the boulder and looking forward to an easy scramble to the top when I came across another difficult pitch . |
| 7 | Which shows how cool I was at first . |
| 8 | Being by nature fairly cautious and sometimes reluctant to adapt to change , I was at first somewhat bemused by an array of unfamiliar terms — competence elements , HN units , performance criteria . |
| 9 | When I read it , I was at first very put off , but I 'm glad I persevered , as in the end I was quite charmed , and thought it contained some very shrewd observations , too . |
| 10 | And it was either thinking about the wage packet at end of week which I was at first . |
| 11 | " Values " which were at first aesthetic have become didactic . " |
| 12 | In May 1711 , Jonathan Swift wrote that the two parties had so shifted their principles since Charles II 's time , " that those two fantastick Names of Whig and Tory , have at present very little Relation to those Opinions , which were at first thought to distinguish them " . |
| 13 | The Brotherhood has immense economic power which was at first based on its control of the ground-nut trade but later on a diversified portfolio of business interests , many of them urban . |
| 14 | Their parents spent three years contemplating whether or not to go through with the separation , which was at first thought impossible because of the degree to which the girls were joined . |
| 15 | It showed a radiopaque object , which was at first difficult to identify . |
| 16 | This was Albrecht Ritschl 's The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation , which came out in three volumes between 1870 and 1874 and launched the movement which was at first called ‘ the Ritschlian theology ’ , but is now generally labelled ‘ Liberal Theology ’ . |
| 17 | Robert Hibbert had died in 1849 leaving money for religious purposes , which was at first applied to theological education . |
| 18 | The iron pricker which was at first common was replaced by brass or copper . |
| 19 | For several years she had suffered from painful endometriosis , which was at first misdiagnosed and then treated unnecessarily by surgery . |
| 20 | She was at first misunderstood . |
| 21 | She was at first incensed at the idea — as if she had no more to do than pack up guns , as if it were an easy matter to send such an object at all , as if she existed only for his convenience — and then amused . |
| 22 | She was at first sight a cheerful figure , a plump woman of 65 who wore a brightly patterned dress and whose curly hair showed around the front of her white scarf . |
| 23 | It is not unlikely that he was the same man as Barates the Palmyrene whose wife Regina was buried at South Shields ; a Catuvellaunian by birth , she was at first his slave before he freed and married her . |
| 24 | In eighteen thirty one Charlotte was sent to the , to Roe Head School at Murfield She was at first homesick , but eventually carried off three prizes . |
| 25 | She was in first thing , I mean I sent it off that evening she was in first thing the next morning yes that 's fine . |
| 26 | She was in first thing , I mean I sent it off that evening she was in first thing the next morning yes that 's fine . |
| 27 | Brian : ‘ We were at first . |
| 28 | Increasingly candidates thought able enough were entered for O and even A levels ( and rightly , because there was at first no other examination for them to take ) and when the CSE examination was introduced for those thought not to be up to O level , the top grade of CSE was soon deemed to count as an O level , and thus itself to aspire to the academic . |
| 29 | There was at first some confused skirmishing over the actual terms of the Charter — the College 's solicitor , Mr France , had apparently not seen some amendments and had agreed to others from the practitioners ' side without fully informing either the College professors or William Dick . |
| 30 | There was at first little to engage his political interest , but this changed after Eden 's resignation in February 1938 . |