Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's been talk of Bruce leaving but it will be a greater achievement for me to establish myself as first choice with him still at the club . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 3 | I helped her at first but it was a mistake . ’ |
| 4 | before before the meeting proper may I refer you to first of all the voice amplification system is currently working but er there are some difficulties with it and it may during the day deteriorate to a state that it is more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 5 | I admired her at first , wanting to help the slaves . |
| 6 | I watched it in first and I went |
| 7 | I liked him at first , but … ’ |
| 8 | Her face was straight as she looked at him and she spoke the truth when she answered , ‘ I liked it at first ; it was like a holiday after school , but not so of late . ’ |
| 9 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 10 | ‘ It was her beauty which attracted me at first , ’ said Mr Jefferson , who was a produce buyer for NAFFI for more than 37 years . |
| 11 | ‘ Bardolet 's co-driver made a timing error on the last rally which dropped them from first to fourth and that cost them the lead in the championship , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 12 | European shareholders have ‘ pre-emption rights ’ which entitle them to first call on secondary offerings ; and underwriting is common practice for new issues , too . |
| 13 | Several people were listening but nobody said anything at first . |
| 14 | Could you know anything without first presupposing that you are there to know it and that there is something there to be known ? |
| 15 | She hated it at first , she would n't drive it . |
| 16 | But she hated it at first . |
| 17 | ‘ Good point , but you call it in first . ’ |
| 18 | When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it |
| 19 | While the pop princess ' disappointment at finding a wedding ring firmly on his finger seemed real enough to viewers ( and is confirmed by those who witnessed it at first hand ) , Banderas likes to believe it was all an act for the cameras . |
| 20 | His many-sided aesthetic interests led him to surround himself with first editions , Bristol glass , mother-of-pearl knick-knacks , and , above all , his notable collection of musical boxes ( later given to the Pitt Rivers Museum , Oxford ) . |
| 21 | All this was owned by the d'Urbervilles , or the Stoke-d'Urbervilles as they called themselves at first . |
| 22 | Last night we had a phone call , oh it frightened me at first actually , I answered the phone |
| 23 | He waved me in first . |
| 24 | ‘ I was n't even sure he liked me at first . ’ |
| 25 | They look like rust — it fooled me at first . |
| 26 | It suited me at first to have you believe there was someone in my life . |