Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 2 | I look at the first enjoyed it |
| 3 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 4 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 5 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 6 | If justice reigns at all , we will find ourselves barred at the first threshold of the underworld . |
| 7 | Discussions on these and other subjects , which started at the first consultation two years ago , will be developed further next August at the Third Indonesian Consultation on Theology and Communication . |
| 8 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 9 | Now if you look at the first four figures there , does anybody want to have a guess at what those first four figures mean ? |
| 10 | Now can I er also suggest to you that in discussing this one outstanding item of the housing land allocations , we pursue virtually the same sort of approach that we did yesterday , er and in fact if you look at what is set down under matter One D for discussion , it says is the provision proposed for the Greater York area including the new settlement appropriate etcetera , and in fact when you look at the first item for discussion under the Greater York new settlement issue , we come straight into , does Greater York new settlement represent an appropriate and justified policy response , etcetera . |
| 11 | If you look at the first page of the appendix B , er the outer route was was called was the blue route so if you look down |
| 12 | If you look at the first it might help you to decide whether you like |
| 13 | Ursula Lane believes her 29-times driving test marathon has made her a safer driver than some of the ‘ young Kings of the Road ’ who pass at the first attempt . |
| 14 | The professors with Middle-European names spend their lives working out what the great inner secret is , that thing you feel at the first glance . |
| 15 | In 1983 the jockey would found the Bob Champion Cancer Trust , and four years later Aldaniti himself ( who fell at the first fence in the 1982 National ) would play his part in the Trust 's fund-raising activities by undertaking a 250-mile charity walk from London to Liverpool , arriving at the course to massive acclaim on the day of the Grand National : among the riders who partnered the 1981 hero on his trek was the Princess Royal . |
| 16 | Lynch , who fell at the first fence on his only other Grand National ride in 1981 , had looked likely to miss the race after Auntie Dot , one of his regular mounts , had been promised to Mark Dwyer , who finished third on her in last year 's race . |
| 17 | 2.05:TOP weight Bradbury Star , who fell at the first in this race last year , has an excellent chance to gain compensation . |
| 18 | follow the detailed reasoning or argument ; 2. note what you missed at the first reading ; 3. if you own the book , you may mark key points ; and 4. if you do n't own the book , note key points . |
| 19 | The notice to the creditors must state a time and date , not more than four days before the meeting , by when the creditors must lodge their proofs of debt ( Form 6.37 in Sched 4 to the rules , see App C , form 34 ) and , if applicable , proxies , in order to entitle them to vote at the first meeting ( r 6.79(4) ) . |
| 20 | As Dr Reading told BBC WILDLIFE : ‘ We met at the first World Congress of Herpetology at Canterbury in 1989 , and subsequently arranged to co-ordinate the two projects . ’ |
| 21 | We stopped at the first bar we came to and walked inside , to where Johnson and Fleming , two English legionnaires , were drinking . |
| 22 | We sailed at the first light of day . |
| 23 | you believe , well what are we looking at here , page seventy eight , it 's been produced by er for are we looking at the first brochure , or an updated version or what ? |
| 24 | We looking at the first meeting to make sure . |
| 25 | There are a couple of false summits on Schiehallion , and by the time we arrived at the first , the beginnings of a blizzard were forming . |
| 26 | On the way in we look at the first five tables — if we do n't spot anyone , if we do n't get told about anything happening , we politely disappear after 20 minutes or so . ’ |
| 27 | Now if we look at the first of these in terms of structure we can see that it can be defined as a dramatic exercise , fulfilling the principal requisite of exercise as outlined in Chapter Three — a commitment to a short-term task . |
| 28 | Now , if we look at the first example , we 've got a single male client , aged thirty four next birthday . |
| 29 | Before midday we arrive at the first village and are met by the Mukhtar , Hadji Hanna . |
| 30 | When we study the planned towns of England , we arrive at the first , and obvious , conclusion that to make a planned town required the absolute ownership of the site by one man or corporation . |