Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time seemed to go rather slowly at first . |
| 2 | Walking fairly briskly at first to keep the fire 's warmth with us , we went down through the fields , crossed the main bridge and followed a tributary upstream until the valley narrowed out . |
| 3 | Seemed all right at first , but came up like a balloon over the weekend . ’ |
| 4 | The CIA commented somewhat tentatively at first on Harold Wilson , the prime minister , describing him as very much a loner in British politics . |
| 5 | The only hard part about this operation was the regular watchkeeping split between our six-man crew throughout twenty four hours , but the time passed pleasantly enough at first . |
| 6 | Much of what she had been telling had been brought out raggedly at first , there had been hesitations , intervals , while she was trying to see , groping for a piece in the jig-saw ; and then it all seemed to come to her , she only had to keep speaking . |
| 7 | We go in mainly for first editions of the classics but we do have some rather nice botanical books , floras mostly , sought after for their plates … |
| 8 | Answer : Neither can go ahead legally without first getting planning permission . |
| 9 | ‘ The engineering side grew very quickly at first , ’ says Rudd . |
| 10 | He slept almost continuously at first so I could work almost as normal . |
| 11 | Another criticism of this study is that the authors only differentiated very generally between first and second generation Asian and Afro-Caribbeans without discussing the implications of mixing them together in the study , potentially masking important differences in the rates of schizophrenia between the two , and leaving an unclear picture as to whether second generation Asians , who were in the minority , benefited in the same way from the postulated protective factors . |
| 12 | Shortly afterwards he became a more serious bookmaker , but plunged too heavily at first and lost all his capital . |
| 13 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 14 | This works very well at first . |