Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compare the the text at the beginning with hers , the the the Middle English text with hers , and tell me , is there anything which she has caught well , or anything which she has missed out , or look at the first sentence , is she right there ? |
| 2 | Vodafone Group Plc claims that a survey by the Office of Telecommunications shows that it provides the best quality of service available to mobile phone users : Vodafone has more than 820,000 of the 1.4m UK subscribers and in its first quality survey Oftel monitored 120 routes across the UK , finding that Vodafone had an overall success rate for call connection of 93% against 88.7% for Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd ; some 95.8% of calls on Vodafone 's network from mobile to fixed line phones were set up and completed at the first attempt , said Oftel , compared with 92.5% on Cellnet 's network ; fixed to mobile on the same basis were 92.4% for Vodafone and 89.8% for Cellnet ; Cellnet reckons it comes out tops in trials of hand portables in the Greater London area . |
| 3 | And his heart sang as he settled his lance in rest again , and drove at the first and readiest knight who caught his eye . |
| 4 | IT was claps , crackles and pop at the first night of a new comedy venue in Darlington . |
| 5 | He pulled out a bundle and looked at the first address , but he did n't recognise it . |
| 6 | Dada took the book from her and looked at the first page . |
| 7 | Inspect plants regularly and spray at the first signs of attack . |
| 8 | Melanie thought they did and froze at the first breath of pity , summoning all her resources to act coolly . |
| 9 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |