Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their husbands objected at first , but soon stopped when the money started coming in and anyway a quarter of the women were on their own , who had been abandoned or divorced . |
| 2 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 3 | Curtis ' incipiently multiracial ideas seemed at first rather startling to some other members of the Round . |
| 4 | Police stated that although the troubles appeared at first to be spontaneous , both left- and right-wing extremists , Islamic fundamentalists and drug dealers had soon moved in . |
| 5 | Finally Matchsticks ducked through first and pulled the woman in , screaming , by her hair . |
| 6 | White friends that I 've got , their mums argued at first , but now they 're just bringing the baby up as their own . |
| 7 | Tokyo : Prices rose at first after the ruling Liberal Democratic party 's by-election victory but drifted later to close mixed , with the Nikkei average 13.79 points lower at 35,622.97 . |
| 8 | This year they stepped up attempts to sell and talks were held with UK merchant bank Singer & Friedlander before negotiations started with First National . |
| 9 | The Ministers arrived at first light to find the palace dark and empty , the huge rooms barely lit by a few lamps placed here and there showing the furniture covered in drapes . |
| 10 | Among our samples , for instance , 79 per cent of the spouses said at first interview that they wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home , compared with 36 per cent of the non-spouses . |
| 11 | The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems . |
| 12 | Midlands canals tended at first to link local industries with their raw materials . |
| 13 | Most of the existing shares came from First Financial Management Corp , Atlanta , Georgia , which acquired 2.4m shares in connection with FIserv 's acquisition of Tomahawk Holding Inc and its Basis Information Technologies Inc unit . |
| 14 | The impact of a series of I 's in theme position is not the same as the impact of a series of verbs inflected for first person , such as ‘ saw-I ’ , ‘ took-I ’ , etc. , where it is difficult to discern a theme line as clearly as in the pronoun-plus-verb combination . |