Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [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 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
| 7 | ‘ So you got in first ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Agrippa , although he objected at first , reluctantly consented to write out the warrants and disburse the necessary silver for our journeys . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 16 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 17 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 18 | Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared . |
| 19 | If he failed at first , he would know better next time . |
| 20 | If he pays in first and then has to make an interim payment and he wants to make that payment out of the money in court , he must ask specifically for leave to do so and also to amend his notice of payment in so as to refer to the fact that some of the money has been paid out . |
| 21 | But while it seems at first quite normal that this should happen at an inquest involving the opera 's central character one soon notices that the process is in fact highly artificial , like the narrations which open several of Britten 's later operas , designed in this instance to have the dramatis personae stand up and be recognised but in a context which fits the story . |
| 22 | When I started at first erm |
| 23 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 24 | Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed . |
| 25 | But she could n't ever see me , though I think at first she knew I was around , so now I mostly stay where I am and amuse myself with some of the other kids who are here too . |
| 26 | He swigged his champagne with such abandon that Ruth knew he had swallowed Maria Luisa 's explanation of their affair with the same ease as she had at first . |
| 27 | But when we came at first there were these erm there were these er street street musicians you know . |
| 28 | He says having been there , the crash is n't over such a wide area as we thought at first . |
| 29 | Well , when they came at first they says , see the way they 've got there |
| 30 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |