Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Two years ago my wife changed to first class to ensure a seat — it 's another £700 — but she still does n't get one . ’ |
| 2 | Its presence had at first been derided by the national brewers but its campaigning zeal attracted continual media attention and many independent brewers had been encouraged to return to cask beer production with enthusiasm . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Concepts , criteria , definitions , and their implications seem at first just verbal and so a matter of convention or even arbitrary . |
| 5 | Here in Brighton not so long ago , she and members of her Cabinet experienced at first hand all the skills , courage and dedication of my colleagues . |
| 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 | In eighteen thirty five she returned as a teacher , her salary to pay for first Emily 's , and then Anne 's tuition there . |
| 8 | In appearance he was a tall and forbidding character , whom Cleo thought at first was rather too grim of face . |
| 9 | Poor John Durbeyfield 's death had more importance than his family realized at first . |
| 10 | I told him I wanted to know what labour felt like first . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's what Ubaldo thought at first . |