Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] 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 | ‘ No , they got in first , but you were planning to . |
| 3 | They lived at first not far from Magdalene College in a house which looked across the river Cam to Midsummer Common . |
| 4 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 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 | The instigators of the revolt were Hugh and Matfrid , the dis-honoured of 828 : it was Pippin they turned to first ; and when Charles 's mother Judith was taken from her husband 's side , and accused of adultery with Bernard , she was sent to custody in Aquitaine , at Ste-Croix , Poitiers . |
| 8 | They heard at first that these were industrial spare parts , then medical equipment , then mining equipment , then oil-drilling gear . |
| 9 | Flushed and wild-eyed like all the others , they resisted at first when he tried to drag them away . |
| 10 | They had to first of all get a base from which to achieve , unfortunately of course gaining the power and the growth of the power no doubt the ideals were corrupted and it became what you are su suggesting it did , it no longer represented the people . |
| 11 | Though before they could reach the restaurant they had to first go down some concrete steps , and then up several flights more . |
| 12 | 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 . |