Example sentences of "we [vb past] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when we came at first there were these erm there were these er street street musicians you know . |
| 2 | The rain had let up and we walked at first , then as the first drops turned into a steady drizzle , we took a cab . |
| 3 | As my son had been born on 5 March of that year , we talked at first about children , and he observed somewhat wistfully that the experience of having children must , despite all its responsibilities , be a unique sort of pleasure . |
| 4 | Even though the chances of owning a boarding house were less then the people we listened to first believed , they had a distinctive orientation to work which no other group expressed . |
| 5 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 6 | ‘ We thought at first that she had hidden herself deliberately , ’ said Nanette , ‘ and did n't bother too much . |
| 7 | He says having been there , the crash is n't over such a wide area as we thought at first . |
| 8 | We thought at first the Chinese had eaten all the other birds ! |
| 9 | We worried at first that the children might be sceptical and uninterested ; but we soon found that nine year olds have already heard of atoms in garbled ways from comics and really want to know about them . |
| 10 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 11 | oh we might have a oh we did at first , when we first had the record player years ago did n't we ? |
| 12 | Derek Hampson , assistant manager of the RSPCA home , said : ‘ The dog was much older than we had at first been informed and he was very sick . |