Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time seemed to go rather slowly at first . |
| 2 | Seemed all right at first , but came up like a balloon over the weekend . ’ |
| 3 | It was only later , after they had become engaged , that he had seemed to change , so slowly at first that she was scarcely even aware of it happening until , one day at a party given by a fellow student , someone , she could n't even remember who , had planted a playful kiss on her cheek . |
| 4 | Really sad , because you loved him so much at first . ’ |
| 5 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 6 | Since the publication of ‘ Education for Self-Reliance ’ , the process of transforming these goals into curriculum plans and curriculum practice has been taking place , somewhat languidly at first , but with increasing momentum . |
| 7 | We go in mainly for first editions of the classics but we do have some rather nice botanical books , floras mostly , sought after for their plates … |
| 8 | The CIA commented somewhat tentatively at first on Harold Wilson , the prime minister , describing him as very much a loner in British politics . |
| 9 | Perhaps surprisingly at first sight , additional variable capacitance is introduced in parallel with R 2 and additional fixed capacitance in parallel with R 1 . |
| 10 | It took him some time to arrive , only tentatively at first , at the conclusion that the hard , rectangular shape of the dining table could have played some part . |
| 11 | ever so well at first and then |
| 12 | The lower storey has thick walls while the upper one has thinner walls set back to form a terrace all round at first floor level . |
| 13 | I do get nervous , but not necessarily on first nights . |
| 14 | There were a few young men who developed female characteristics , unconsciously perhaps at first but certainly consciously when they became aware of the power that these gave them . |
| 15 | The strain provoked leaks in the hull and she started taking in water , but not seriously at first . |
| 16 | Brian Lara was dropped low down at first slip by Wessels off his first ball from Snell , and Keith Arthurton , in his first Test for three years , survived two slip catches off no-balls and another actual chance in his top score of 59 , filled with 10 exciting on-side boundaries . |
| 17 | She tried to fob him off tactfully at first , but then he became brutal . |
| 18 | I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles . |
| 19 | The only hard part about this operation was the regular watchkeeping split between our six-man crew throughout twenty four hours , but the time passed pleasantly enough at first . |
| 20 | At last I got on a bus , which trundled quite briskly to the far end of the King 's Road , but after World 's End , where the streets were darker , the fog seemed to close in and the bus was forced to nose its way cautiously along in first gear . |
| 21 | As the light went , leaving its afterglow on his blind eyes , he was vaguely distracted by a ringing sound , far off at first but closer with every repetition . |
| 22 | Walking fairly briskly at first to keep the fire 's warmth with us , we went down through the fields , crossed the main bridge and followed a tributary upstream until the valley narrowed out . |
| 23 | I think this is tosh myself , but it 's really up to first ascensionists , so send me details if you wish . |
| 24 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
| 25 | Rather tentatively at first , volunteers came forward to work the word-processors ; another manned the phone continuously from that first day until the office finally moved out of its temporary accommodation in the middle of May . |
| 26 | Despite some differences the two parties co-operated reasonably well together at first . |
| 27 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 28 | And they 're not above leaving a couple of drays in there late on till first light , rather than stable them . |
| 29 | Almost imperceptibly at first the trees in the High Street pavement began to sway . |
| 30 | He slept almost continuously at first so I could work almost as normal . |