Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 2 | so it was n't the fact I was trying to lose too much speed , it was that I changed into first and did n't have |
| 3 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 4 | Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque . |
| 5 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 6 | The words were so softly spoken that she wondered at first if she 'd heard correctly . |
| 7 | Perhaps she had been closer to the truth than she had at first suspected with her taunts about Theo Quinn ; and , although she no longer wanted Ben , she felt that , if this were to prove the case , it would be a great waste of promising material . |
| 8 | would n't you get one in that Princess that you got at first ? |
| 9 | Which is the the one that you 're sort of that you came across first of all the trig functions ? |
| 10 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
| 11 | ‘ So you got in first ? ’ |
| 12 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 13 | Orwell 's simplicity was much like that parent-figure : it can suddenly look more complicated , and more assumed , than one had at first supposed . |
| 14 | Derek Hampson , assistant manager of the RSPCA home , said : ‘ The dog was much older than we had at first been informed and he was very sick . |
| 15 | However , although it seems at first sight that prospects for prevention associated with life events are bleak , there are nevertheless a number of realistic possibilities , and it is important to go through these . |
| 16 | Agrippa , although he objected at first , reluctantly consented to write out the warrants and disburse the necessary silver for our journeys . |
| 17 | The most important lesson to be learnt from the fossil discoveries of the 1840s and 1850s was that the history of life was far more complex than anyone had at first realized . |
| 18 | This is a more generous protest even than it seems at first sight , for Jacob 's possessions include Esau 's birthright , and Isaac 's blessing that had been meant for him . |
| 19 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 20 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 21 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 22 | The eastern Saxons are almost certain to have remained at this time within the orbit of Oswiu and it may also be the case that Aethelwald , the brother of Aethelhere ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , received Oswiu 's support as the new king of the eastern Angles ; it is certainly not at all impossible that he ruled at first in a dependent relationship . |
| 23 | He wanted to sleep , and the prospect of a bed , even one which he would be required to occupy without companionship , was so attractive that he missed at first the signs that all was not well . |
| 24 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 25 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 26 | Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared . |
| 27 | Further research revealed that what had at first appeared to be a bizarre anomaly was in fact a cultural feature shared by many different Indian peoples . |
| 28 | Thus , as far as the spadefoot is concerned , it is quite possible that what appears at first sight to be a random collection of toads arbitrarily mating with anything and everything is actually an ordered process . |
| 29 | Large red and white boats packed the harbour , and I thought at first that they must be private yachts . |
| 30 | ‘ Once I cut the neckline wrong on three hundred dresses and I thought at first I 'd just keep quiet and fill the gap with lace . |