Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 2 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 3 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 4 | It seems to me of first importance to confront this kind of question realistically and not to discredit one 's cause by refusing to admit that the clash exists . |
| 5 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 6 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 7 | You come to us at First National Bank for a loan . |
| 8 | ‘ He will like you and he will need you for you speak English and he speaks no Italian and not even his brother will be able to speak to him at first . ’ |