Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] at 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 | ‘ Yes , about five years , but then I did n't at first have anything to judge my pain against . |
| 6 | I did n't at first but since people have said I 've looked at some pictures and seen some sort of resemblence … |
| 7 | That was all she took in at first , until Miss Belle cried in an excited voice , ‘ Well , Rene , take the coat off and let her feel it . |
| 8 | Wrapped in her own thoughts , she did not at first hear what her husband was saying and only became aware of his monologue when Hank said : ‘ Say , Dad , that 'll be good . ’ |
| 9 | A man she did n't at first recognise . |
| 10 | She had not at first taken it seriously . |
| 11 | ‘ Then why did n't you say so at first ? |
| 12 | The they were niggers here when we came here at first . |
| 13 | but you know we , we might feel cold when we get in at first , oh we have n't been in long before it 's warm is n't it ? |
| 14 | But Jim really hurt her because erm when she was going out with him he was a virgin and then erm they came back , you notice things were a bit sort of sort of on the rocks when they came back at first ? |
| 15 | Often tagged ‘ the Varsity Match ’ , they worked together at first . |
| 16 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 17 | Both were so absorbed in their activities that when the float went down , they did not at first respond . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Concerning masks in the drama , he writes how at first the characters who wore them took part in ‘ A certain unvarying ritual action , … a religious mystery ’ which became ‘ grotesque ’ . |
| 20 | He says only at first it was all new to me . |
| 21 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’ |
| 24 | Having himself come from a close family he did not at first regard his wife 's involvement with Chloe as unusual . |
| 25 | Something struck his face , though he did not at first realise what it was . |
| 26 | He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano . |
| 27 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 28 | But there was a purpose and he was reminded of it , a purpose which seemed to Mr Dass to be so petty that he had n't at first been able to take it seriously . |
| 29 | He held back at first , but only until she was confined in the hospital at Leyden . |
| 30 | Ooh twelve months like that , as long as you get it dried properly at first you see . |