Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
| 2 | Poulantzas thus constructs what appears at first to be a morass of categories in continual flux ; but he then extracts from it a pattern of relations which he regards as constant . |
| 3 | The nurse said of course they could use the phone , but they should have themselves looked at first . |
| 4 | Those who rebut any ideas of extraterrestrial civilizations ask what seems at first sight to be a very salient question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 5 | As experienced dog owners we thought we knew what to expect at first — a little mess , some chewing , a bit of a handful . |
| 6 | They probably do improve the services to the people on the estates ; they do hurry along their repairs , which I think you mentioned at first , Bill , but we 've still retained a central department . |
| 7 | Who 's did she look at first ? |
| 8 | 8 A coin collector has C coins and is given a further 20 coins.If he now has 2,352 coins altogether , how many did he have at first ? |
| 9 | Lesley-Anne Rawlings , prosecuting , said he had at first claimed he had gone into the school on August 9 to try and put the fire out . |
| 10 | Tank had what appeared at first sight to be good credentials , having designed the Focke Wulf 190 aircraft which had given Germany air superiority for eighteen months during the Second World War . |
| 11 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |