Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't recognise my sister at first when she opened the door , she 'd cut her hair , but the eyes were the same , there were small creases at the sides , the skin puffy , roughened by crying . |
| 2 | The Court dismissed their appeal at first instance but they appealed ( see MS Fashions Ltd and Others v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA [ 1992 ] , The Times , 23 June ) . |
| 3 | Usually they have few opportunities to check that their instructions are being pursued and almost none to supervise their execution at first hand . |
| 4 | Joey did n't recognise his cousin at first , and kept peering along as if to make sure . |
| 5 | An alternative is a data-driven approach in which we base our investigation of first impressions on people 's experience , observations and accounts and then develop informal theories on the basis . |
| 6 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 7 | By seeing their work at first hand , they 're hoping he 'll be convinced of the need for more officers . |
| 8 | I said I reckoned she got her oar in first and thought I 'm gon na |
| 9 | When he went back into the room , she got her word in first . |
| 10 | C D trials give a good opportunity to see if the driving system stands up to a teacher who was not involved in the design of the unit and C DL and C D L trials separately show its effectiveness on first acquaintance and its effectiveness after the teacher is acclimatized to its use . |
| 11 | In view of the harsh treatment of the victims of mental illness in hospitals like Bedlam , where members of the public or the acting profession could study their behaviour at first hand , it is not surprising that no striking instances of writers proclaiming themselves mad by writing about their own affliction have come to light in this period . |
| 12 | If you put your tailplane on first , you might say , quite rightly , that this will not happen with your equipment . |
| 13 | ‘ Henri should stick to making soup , ’ Mandy said , obviously not liking her position as first with the news being usurped . |
| 14 | BRISTOL ROVERS began their fight for First Division survival yesterday by signing QPR 's Andy Tillson and Gary Waddock for nearly £500,000 . |
| 15 | Let herself go a bit — ye get that with women whose men are giving them a hard time , and who hav'na found a way of getting their retaliation in first . ’ |
| 16 | He 's been told he can do it legally only if he takes his uniform off first . |
| 17 | ‘ What I mean , my girl , is that you swanned in here , full of self-righteous anger because a little carpenter had deigned to clutter your space without first consulting you , and quite frankly I was sick to my back teeth with what I saw . ’ |
| 18 | If the patient has changed a lot in his attitudes , you should bide your time at first , if you can , in case he does recover to become as before . |
| 19 | A lulling orchestral accompaniment , some smokey crooning and an ingratiating melody gatecrash your approval on first hearings and then slowly reveal the tumult of fury that seethes beneath the surface . |
| 20 | It has pinned its future to first the Zilog Inc Z8000 , then the Motorola Inc 68000 , then the Mips Technologies Inc R-series , before now deciding that Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha RISC is the road to salvation . |
| 21 | The social worker regularly assigned to the case seemed to call when most of the children were at school , so he was unable to judge their progress at first hand . |
| 22 | Nine patients did not give their number of sexual partners and one of them did not tell her age at first intercourse . |
| 23 | - Housing allocation policies have no place for men once a family has broken up , so hostels for the homeless become their place of first and last resort . |
| 24 | Later he went up to Oxford , taking his degree with first class honours in History . |
| 25 | We had some two hours sleep that night , then proceeded to align our position before first light . |
| 26 | You tossed your opponent for first strike , then the loser just stood still like a lemon with his conker dangling from the string . |
| 27 | Some writers worked as independent agents , such as the High Tory , Charles Leslie , who produced his Rehearsal at first weekly , and then bi-weekly , between 1704 and 1709 . |
| 28 | Evans got his blow in first as he stood at the door , ushered them into a large office overlooking the Kaiserstrasse . |
| 29 | I will probably be anxious to get my defection in first . |
| 30 | This simple account of cattle-raiding followed by an expedition to punish the thieves explains the situation on frontiers all over the world , and of course these punitive expeditions ( which sometimes took the form of pre-emptive strikes by people who wanted to get their retaliation in first ) were carried out without consulting any central government . |