Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered what he would do if he could n't get into the house … well , he supposed he could go back to Joseph 's place , spend the night there and then hurry home at first light , when the servants would be up . |
| 2 | Restrictions on silviculture in the tropics are most striking in the area of soil properties ; for example , the pisolites of parts of West Africa are some 10 m deep with no obvious horizons and , although trees grow well at first , they later collapse and the removal of the forest leads to desolation resembling a gravel pit . |
| 3 | Do n't worry if your compression joints leak slightly at first — this happens to professional plumbers too . |
| 4 | Feed sparingly at first . |
| 5 | I think maybe at first she should have a morning meeting , or a weekly meeting , to discuss the menus for the following week . |