Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came here at first , the side were top of the First Division , but there was no apparent feeling for the game . |
| 2 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 3 | I think maybe at first she should have a morning meeting , or a weekly meeting , to discuss the menus for the following week . |
| 4 | I did just at first , because I missed my Mum , so I used to go back to visit her . |
| 5 | ‘ Then why did n't you say so at first ? |
| 6 | The they were niggers here when we came here at first . |
| 7 | Often tagged ‘ the Varsity Match ’ , they worked together at first . |
| 8 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 9 | He says only at first it was all new to me . |
| 10 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 11 | As he pulled out of the gas station exit onto the highway , he drove carefully at first , getting the feel of the big powerful car . |
| 12 | It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’ |
| 13 | It does so by first pulling in its tongue and closing its jaws . |
| 14 | Ooh twelve months like that , as long as you get it dried properly at first you see . |
| 15 | It begins gently at first , a pipe bridge , a lattice canal footbridge and an arched cable bridge , and then develops in earnest as sliproads flail through the air , the M6 crosses , the Birmingham to Lichfield railway passes through and ever more sliproads arc over until the canal passes into a large box tunnel with two towpaths below the A38M Aston Expressway before emerging into the relative simplicity of Salford Junction below the M6 . |