Example sentences of "they [verb] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe some of them visited at first , but it gradually dwindled — even Sonia and Paul Mason , whom she was very friendly with , stopped visiting . |
| 2 | They lived at first not far from Magdalene College in a house which looked across the river Cam to Midsummer Common . |
| 3 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 4 | Given the fact that much of the property in the western half of the country was sub-let to under-tenants at rack rents , it is doubtful whether regional differences were as pronounced as they appear at first sight . |
| 5 | However , things are not as simple as they seemed at first . |
| 6 | Well , when they came at first they says , see the way they 've got there |
| 7 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 8 | Outrageous they seem at first . |
| 9 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 10 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 11 | They heard at first that these were industrial spare parts , then medical equipment , then mining equipment , then oil-drilling gear . |
| 12 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 13 | Flushed and wild-eyed like all the others , they resisted at first when he tried to drag them away . |
| 14 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 15 | I used to smile at the people who stopped me in the street , not knowing what they wanted at first , until I discovered that there were actually beggars in London . |
| 16 | Secondment is an opportunity for them to learn at first hand about the world of work to which their students are aspiring . |