Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] first [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a little hesitant at first but soon had told her everything ; how he met the Bookman , his funny habits , his endless knowledge , their pranks , sitting in the sun on reclining chairs and leaping through the shelves . |
| 2 | It was rather extensive at first and consequence of being and a necessity of taking in clothes of all the paupers who , with , which on a , on a waste of after a week or two the number of the workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers and the board were in , were in and then in which the boys got back , were , were a large was a cop was a copper at one end , after which the master dressed in an apron and assisted by one or two women and they ladled the gruel at meal times . |
| 3 | This oath of secrecy I found so oppressive at first that I felt like the barber in the Greek myth who had to dig a hole in the ground and whisper , ‘ Midas has asses ' ears ! ’ |
| 4 | Hannah also recalls this meeting , which was to have a most satisfying outcome She was surprised to learn that her meadows contained so much of ecological value and was somewhat confused at first when Mike Prosser turned up that day . |
| 5 | Well I think it 's been awful interesting to see the pictures develop and like they 're so rough at first and they 're and more developed and they 're more things in them and the colours are getting more definite and everything . |
| 6 | Her Majesty ‘ was extremely surprised at first but then her artistic and historical sense was fired and she agreed ’ . |
| 7 | If a number is not right on first or second playing , it is dropped , and the star moves on to something else . |
| 8 | The exposure was a little frightening at first and instinctively he kept close to walls . |
| 9 | Most women had been brought up to do sewing and dressmaking : it was no accident , nor was it a question of " natural aptitude " that a teenage girl entering the composing-room was likely to be more dexterous at first than a boy , and to apply both the physical and mental habits acquired in sewing to the job in hand . |
| 10 | Some pots can look rather sparse at first but with good compost , regular feeding and attention to watering , they soon fill out into good-sized plants . |
| 11 | Josie Lawrence 's girlish reading is rather daunting at first but in fact hits the right note for this unexpectedly cheering and totally unsentimental little fable . |
| 12 | I have to say that I was a little disappointed at first when mine failed to absorb all the rain from a really wet windscreen , but I found that when held edge-on , this handy , blue tool proved most effective at scraping the snow and ice from my car . |
| 13 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 14 | She was very nervous at first and would not come out from behind the piano . |
| 15 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
| 16 | It was bloody embarrassing at first and all , I can tell you , as these two girls sat there right in front of my nose , but the girls it did n't phase out at all . ’ |
| 17 | I was n't too sure at first if it 'll fit him , but when he put the trousers on , when he put the trousers on first , I thought no , no way , but then when pinned them , you know , they I thought , I thought , but . |
| 18 | According to Pat Hutchinson of Luton Consumer Services , Turbosoft was very successful at first but as the firm grew it could n't cope with the volume of orders received — Trading Standards have had over 400 complaints to date , and they 're still coming in ! |
| 19 | Because I had not done much mathematics at school or at Oxford , I found general relativity very difficult at first and did not make much progress . |
| 20 | In soft cliffs erosion is very active at first and becomes progressively slower until it halts , unless the debris from the cliff is moved away so that it does not interfere with wave action at the foot of the cliff . |