Example sentences of "[adv] at [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 2 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 3 | To do this properly you need to hold the strings down at the first fret and measure from the top of the pickup polepiece to the underside of the strings . |
| 4 | I asked Danny ( Knight ) to put down at the first chance after crossing back over the Channel , and he did ’ . |
| 5 | You do n't get better down at the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 6 | Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’ |
| 7 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 8 | The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar . |
| 9 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 10 | So at the first encore , Katell played two surprise cards but if one — a searing performance of Jacques Brel 's ‘ Me Pas ’ with guest pianist , The Man Seezer — worked , the other — a shapeless version of Ian Dury 's ‘ Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick ’ — flopped . |
| 11 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 12 | She hoped Daak could get the shuttle in at the first attempt . |
| 13 | ‘ In at the first putt ’ , the caption read . |
| 14 | Old enemies now competing together at the first ever international games for disabled ex-servicemen . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 17 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 18 | Two species of butterfly fish have been observed to swim slowly backwards at the first hint of trouble , making their false eyes seem even more real . |
| 19 | Bryan Thomson 's match was already at the first tee when Patrick strolled up with the bag of clubs over his shoulder . |
| 20 | But not at the first interview . |
| 21 | So we 'll put a we 'll put a bank in , very deliberately at the first level |
| 22 | The card is still at the first row . |
| 23 | They are clearly determined not to be beguiled and are prepared to trade quickly at the first sign that sterling 's recent advantage is beginning to dissipate — although they are also finding that the money market is an ants ' nest where one man 's guess is as good as another . |
| 24 | In the case of a board for an islands area or division of an islands area , the members were to be elected at a meeting of the islands council to be held between May 16 , 1977. and June 30 , 1977 , and thereafter at the first meeting of the council after every ordinary election . |
| 25 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 26 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |
| 27 | Instead , people learn to back off at the first sign that somebody might disapprove . |
| 28 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 29 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 30 | Even in that jungly light I see something does n't add up : can a corpse have half a nose and two fingers busted off at the first joint ? |