Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I have to confess that as you were a new arrival and not one of us into the bargain , I thought I should glance at your first letter or two home … |
| 2 | Roughs , based on my general knowledge of the subject , were presented at my first meeting with the ‘ team ’ and accepted in principle . |
| 3 | He had been defeated at his first attempt in 1685 , and in 1689 petitioned the Commons against Tory violence at the hustings . |
| 4 | Only ‘ cause looking at your first question : do you use public transport or do you promote it — there are of course all sorts of arguments sort of for and against that sort of scheme that people have to use their cars . |
| 5 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 6 | ‘ Stop messing about , ’ Rosie had said at his first attempt . |
| 7 | I had become quite skilled with harees , that glutinous porridge of lamb and cracked wheat which I had met at my first meal bedu style . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's nothing to worry about — you should have heard what happened at my first interview . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Detente ’ quickly became a pejorative term , and President Reagan , elected in 1980 , referred to the USSR in a celebrated phrase as an ‘ evil empire ’ ; the Russians , he declared at his first press conference , would ‘ lie and cheat and pursue their ends of world domination ’ . |
| 10 | If you get the green light from the Head , then get together with any friends who are ready to help and any teachers who have offered support to discuss what should happen at your first meeting . |
| 11 | There was no doubting the eagerness of many colleges to respond to the challenge and the opportunity , and the Board — containing a number of lively young university people and interested employers — was torn between its anxiety to go ahead quickly and the need to ensure that it established what it called at its first meeting ‘ lasting standards ’ . |
| 12 | Apart from the strong suspicion that the revenue officers of Wigtown were rather too closely associated with smuggling , their failure to determine at their first survey the proper quantity of dutiable iron imported by Bailie Hooks suggested a method of changing the composition of the town council when the vital election of a delegate to represent the burgh at the ensuing parliamentary election was to be held . |
| 13 | No , it started at our first show in Glasgow , and then we got support slots with Mudhoney before we were a developed band . |
| 14 | The trash , getting ready to protest at this change in plans and then his jaw dropping at his first sight of Lucy ; getting into the cab with him , knowing what she was doing but somehow feeling that she was watching it all from somewhere else . |
| 15 | Twenty-five years later in West Mercia , as a newly promoted superintendent , I listened at my first conference as my peers discussed a chief constable 's agreement which allowed officers to discard ties in hot weather and wear open-necked shirts . |
| 16 | THE teenager charged in the murder of a German tourist sobbed at his first court appearance last night as police staked out several Miami sites searching for his girlfriend and suspected accomplice . |
| 17 | ACTRESS Mia Farrow wept at her first Thanksgiving holiday without long-time lover Woody Allen , a friend revealed yesterday . |
| 18 | Thus the BDDA in the only resolution passed at its first Congress strongly affirmed its faith in the combined system as the best method of deaf education . |
| 19 | As we discussed at our first meeting and as I subsequently discussed with Angela Rumbold , it was very clear that unless there was a preparedness on the part of the Home Office to take its hands off the management of the Prison Service in its day to day business and allow itself to be constrained by matters of policy only , then it would not be possible to effect the changes which you deem desirable and which have become very clear to me as being necessary during the talks I have had and the visits I have made . |
| 20 | what to do if erm you know , you 're arriving at your first day or things like that . |
| 21 | Taken at its first test session at Michelin 's Clermont Ferrand test track , they show the car still under heavy disguise but revealing some of the characteristics that should give it a place among the great supercars . |
| 22 | Touching at his first port of call , |
| 23 | The Bill failed at its first reading by a majority of forty-six , but legislation against deaf discrimination has remained high on the BDA 's agenda . |
| 24 | I think they suggest the figure of-eight method as a hint at how many times you have to keep trying at your first attempt . |
| 25 | She knew as little about him now , his parents , his life , as she had at their first meeting . |
| 26 | Its aim , outlined at its first meeting on 17 December 1940 , was ‘ to agree on the Railway Shops and how much reserve capacity could be allowed to the various Supply Departments . ’ |
| 27 | The handkerchief that she 'd been twisting and untwisting at our first interview came out again , this time to her eyes . |
| 28 | Visible ideas are signs and indications of tangible ideas , and have a constant and universal connection with them which was ‘ learnt at our first entrance into the world ; and ever since , almost every moment of our lives , it has been occurring to our thoughts , and fastening and striking deeper on our minds . ’ |