Example sentences of "as [pron] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sighed heavily as I looked first at one and then at the other while we made our slow way down the main street , past Woolworth and the traffic lights . |
| 2 | The Spartan asceticism in the attic as I had first experienced it was giving way to small comforts . |
| 3 | Prepare the cross-spar to the length indicated ( about 60mm longer than the spine ) and you will soon see why it is generally called a ‘ spreader ’ , as you stick first one end down with more strong tape , then have to curve it , in order to fit it within the kite shape at the other end and onto the final corner . |
| 4 | ‘ As long as she goes first . |
| 5 | She made a mild attempt to evade him but he cut across and landed in front of her , sitting , as she had first seen him , with the sheep and goats dithering and teetering before and around him . |
| 6 | Mrs Hawkins reported that she had been unable to take photos at this location as she had first to finish off a slide film , but will soon be in a position to take the required photos and also others to be displayed at the A.G.M. and then stored in the village archives . |
| 7 | As she took first one , then another slow step towards it , the horse turned its long white head , looking back at her , its huge dark eyes assessing her . |
| 8 | At the time she 'd put that pass down to a reflex action of a man who could n't let any opportunity pass him by , but now she was beginning to have doubts that he was as shallow as she 'd first thought . |
| 9 | As long as she comes first to make sure |
| 10 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 11 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
| 12 | The poem , addressed in its final form to Charles Lamb , followed his friends in imagination as they walked first ‘ along the hill-top edge ’ , then descended to the waterfall in the ‘ roaring dell ’ at Holford , and climbed at last high into the Quantocks , from where they looked out upon ‘ the many-steepled tract magnificent ’ of the coastal plain . |
| 13 | There was also a growing body of opinion in Westminster and Whitehall amongst many of those who had initially welcomed Sandys ’ 1957 Defence White Paper , that his doctrine was not as sensible as they had first thought . |
| 14 | Twenty minutes later , George Leeming lay as they had first seen him , except that his eyes were now open and his back arched as the doctor had placed a pillow under him to make him more comfortable . |
| 15 | Also , Tilly had decided that she could not now reveal the news she had brought with her this morning ; shocking news , news that told how Richard had been cheated and deceived by his own wife … and devastating news of Beth … how she was not safe and happy with Tyler Blacklock , as they had first thought , and how she also had been betrayed , both by her own brother Ben , and by the woman who had raised her from a child . |
| 16 | Women would have the right to an abortion during the first 12 weeks of their pregnancy as long as they had first received non-binding counselling . |
| 17 | The team certainly lived up to its reputation as it whipped first place from under the noses of the Golden Wonder team at the end of the last game . |
| 18 | Watching the stars dim as it turned first grey and then pink . |
| 19 | ‘ It falls to me , as it did first with Peter Shilton and then with Terry Butcher , to place on record on behalf of the Football Association what he has done for his country . |
| 20 | Charity was as he had first known her , the chill turning to ice . |
| 21 | Slowly it dawned on Alexander that the tension that he had first noticed was not of specific parts , as he had first presumed , but of himself as a whole being . |
| 22 | Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed . |
| 23 | And Joey found out that Lizzy , the daughter of a policewoman , was not as innocent as he had first thought . |
| 24 | And Mary as he had first seen her appeared before him again like an apparition as he slid slowly into a long sleep . |
| 25 | Suddenly Alexei remembered Tarvaras as he had first seen it — a revolving holographic projection suspended in the viewing well of the briefing amphitheatre of an Imperial survey vessel , the Simonova — off which he and five other humans had been marooned over twelve standard years earlier . |
| 26 | He began to assemble what he remembered about the house in Mouncy Street as he had first known it . |
| 27 | In the annals of history , Ivor 's name will be first in the Book of the Elect at the Cathedral , as he has first to be called during the ceremony . |