Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] first " in BNC.

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1 Time seemed to go rather slowly at first .
2 Brian Lara was dropped low down at first slip by Wessels off his first ball from Snell , and Keith Arthurton , in his first Test for three years , survived two slip catches off no-balls and another actual chance in his top score of 59 , filled with 10 exciting on-side boundaries .
3 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 .
4 Seemed all right at first , but came up like a balloon over the weekend . ’
5 The CIA commented somewhat tentatively at first on Harold Wilson , the prime minister , describing him as very much a loner in British politics .
6 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 .
7 I think we have got to start again and go right back to first principles .
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 This works very well at first .
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