Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't think much of it at first , but then something started to waft around the corridors , ’ shudders Bea . |
| 2 | Consequently I was very interested to read the article ‘ Tower of Babel ’ by Tania V. Guha ( May/June 1992 ) since I realised that I could now without too much struggle understand most of it , or perhaps I should more truthfully say about 80 per cent of it on first reading . |
| 3 | ‘ I was against it at first . |
| 4 | First , and rather obviously , subjects unfamiliar with a rather complex dynamic decision problem under risk have difficulty in coping with it on first acquaintance . |
| 5 | and if it 's a tight one , and you 're going round it in first , really tight one , then what you need to be doing really is slipping the clutch |
| 6 | I took it , I , he said well try it and we went round it in first and I went and it went rrah |
| 7 | Mr Reenan , of Abingdon , Oxon , confessed : ‘ I can not deny there was a greed aspect to it at first but I regret it now . |
| 8 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 9 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 10 | I was nice about it at first and said that business and pleasure do n't mix ; and that I do n't go out with married men and so on . ’ |
| 11 | Well like you say you feel nervous about it at first but once you do it , you 've got . |
| 12 | George , who was a friend of the Old Groaner for 25 years , will be talking about how Bing came to record White Christmas which became the world 's greatest hit even though Crosby was n't impressed by it at first . |