Example sentences of "be at [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , I wanted Mum to be at the first night , and Dad too . |
| 2 | Taking the early batches of eggs or fry away may interfere with the parents ' ability to raise later batches , so I leave a few batches with a new pair until they get the knack , which may not be at the first attempt . |
| 3 | Branson was as awed as anyone could expect to be at the first sight of their own Jumbo Jet . |
| 4 | The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances . |
| 5 | Thucydides writes with feeling : he complains in his own person in book v ( 68 ) of the secrecy with which the Spartans conduct their affairs , which meant that no one knew how many Spartans there were at the first battle of Mantinea in 418 . |
| 6 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 7 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 8 | I was at the first one when I was fifteen . |