Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl had struggled at first , but Bernice had reassured her : They 'll bring me to you in just a minute , she 'd said . |
| 2 | Berowne had spoken at first spasmodically , then easily , and finally intimately . |
| 3 | The reason that Schrödinger 's and Heisenberg 's versions of quantum mechanics had seemed at first sight different from each other ( see p. 14 ) was that they had chosen to use contrasting extreme possibilities . |
| 4 | A friend indicated that the Army had seemed at first to understand when the WRAC driver said she feared other Paratroopers would victimise her for ‘ squealing ’ on their pals . |
| 5 | Thomas had thought at first that it was a shadow . |
| 6 | Both Peking and East Berlin have witnessed at first hand just how dangerous the forces unleashed by Mikhail Gorbachev can be . |