Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old enemies now competing together at the first ever international games for disabled ex-servicemen . |
| 2 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 3 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 4 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 5 | Look carefully at the first gate , then walk through it . |
| 6 | Each makeshift arrangement concealed a human larva that would emerge again at the first signs of dawn . |
| 7 | Look again at the first version of the witness ' testimony and answer the question : What did she eat for breakfast ? |
| 8 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 9 | No wonder the ‘ troops on the ground ’ are cynical , for they know ‘ real work ’ is for young officers and is something to leave behind at the first opportunity ! |
| 10 | Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve . |
| 11 | Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’ |
| 12 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 13 | I 'm to walk along Crane Street from the city end , turn right at the first corner , right again at the first comer and just keep on like that . ’ |
| 14 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 15 | But all the time they forage they are alert , ready to withdraw instantly at the first hint of danger . |
| 16 | B : yes A : turn left at the first roundabout … |
| 17 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 18 | We bore right at the first gate — the left track leads up to a farmhouse — and later , along a grassy track with pine forest on the left , right again , where a dry stone wall creates a Y-junction . |
| 19 | He shot straight at the first one , who fell back into the trench , but by then he could only watch the other three take aim . |
| 20 | ‘ Once or twice , ’ she admitted , as her next bowl ran straight at the first , making contact with a gentle ‘ klok ’ . |
| 21 | Yet what was certain was that God would strike punitively at the first sign of sin , and the worst sin in a ruler was pride . |
| 22 | The repeating shape of the accompaniment in quavers is designed to recur only at the first beat of the seventh bar . |
| 23 | They are clearly determined not to be beguiled and are prepared to trade quickly at the first sign that sterling 's recent advantage is beginning to dissipate — although they are also finding that the money market is an ants ' nest where one man 's guess is as good as another . |