Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the one we are going to talk about first of all is the too little sugar where your person has been stabilized and they 're taking insulin injections . |
| 2 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 3 | The earl had got in first on this wonderful anchorage , and the advantage remained with his town . |
| 4 | I wished I had got in first by telling her I no longer found her sexually attractive . |
| 5 | Clare remembered how she had seemed at first to be constrained in all her movements and jerky , almost as if her stammer manifested itself through her body as well . |
| 6 | But what he had taken at first for raindrops on the wagon floor were actually pennies , halfpennies and farthings scattered everywhere . |