Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 2 | It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’ |
| 3 | It does so by first pulling in its tongue and closing its jaws . |
| 4 | Ooh twelve months like that , as long as you get it dried properly at first you see . |
| 5 | 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 . |