Example sentences of "looked [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | George , whom I looked for first , was in his office eating a fat ragged beef sandwich and drinking diet Coke . |
| 2 | ‘ Not as bad as it looked on first assessment . |
| 3 | One of the areas I looked at first was the so-called ancillary services — that is cleaning , catering and laundry . |
| 4 | In the forests of the Mesozoic there were large numbers of trees and shrubby plants that looked at first glance like palm trees , with leafless stems crowned with bouquets of stiff , large leaves , deeply divided into long , unbranched leaflets . |
| 5 | She was polite about the leeks and lumpy cheese and said a similar thing could be done with endives and it looked at first as if the lunch was going to prove a slightly awkward affair . |
| 6 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 7 | It looked at first as if she had been drinking blood . |
| 8 | Everything looked at first glance the same . |
| 9 | Short and plump , with receding hair and a peeved expression , Pietro looked at first sight like an English tourist who had come to complain about his belongings being stolen from his hotel room , full of righteous indignation about Italy being a den of thieves and demanding to know when the authorities proposed to do something about it . |
| 10 | The brochure , a coloured affair of four A4 pages , looked at first like a holiday advertisement . |
| 11 | The left side of his face , in the region of the jaw articulation , looked at first sight as though it had been smashed by a blow , but Wycliffe recognised it as the wound of exit of a bullet which had probably ricochetted inside the skull . |