Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | After looking at first reactions I shall sketch the main lines of theological comment and response , and then liturgical , practical and ecumenical developments ; then some ‘ growing points ’ and problems in areas both of praxis and of theological reflection . |
| 2 | She did a lot of work in sitting at first , gaining the feeling of balancing onto her left side , and she was taught how to move her spine more normally . |
| 3 | Yet , as he revealed in one of his later outbursts , he did take Jewish pupils , perhaps without realising at first that they were so . |
| 4 | You could be forgiven for thinking at first that Quick Help for WordPerfect has very few advantages over the help already supplied with WordPerfect . |
| 5 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |