Example sentences of "for [pron] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the other dancers made life difficult for them at first , resenting the physical advantages the South Africans had enjoyed , growing up far away from the hardships of wartime Britain . |
| 2 | When they did not return that night , Richard led a search party for them at first light the following morning . |
| 3 | It may be surprising , but when a cat brings a live mouse to her kittens — perhaps for them to first play with and then kill , or perhaps so that she can kill it while they watch — this is not considered by some experts to be a form of teaching . |
| 4 | It 's bound to be a bit strange for you at first , but saying you wo n't make love to your own husband in your own house because of the servants … ’ |
| 5 | It was strange for him at first but he soon came to enjoy it and did his best to improve the sporting standards and attitudes . |
| 6 | Nor was it easy for her at first to make new ones at The Milebrook , having only a pony and cart and her nearest neighbours being two , four and five miles away . |
| 7 | I was made sorry for her at first , as I would be for any young girl , crippled — it is hinted by the cruelty of her husband — and a mother , but even at the beginning there is a niggling doubt that she is rather superficial and shallow . |
| 8 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |