Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many pupils may object that they find this kind of culture to be alien and puzzling at first since this is a non-exam course there is opportunity for pupils to mark time without any serious results but to achieve personal development gradually or late on in the course at an individual pace . |
| 2 | His mouth , so hard and demanding at first , was softening , moving slowly over hers . |
| 3 | What had seemed so fresh and enticing at first was now stale , predictable . |
| 4 | The darker humour associated with ED 209 , which does indeed look quite large and threatening at first ( and not at all like a model only one foot ( 30cm ) high , which it is ) is typified when it , in error , riddles a young executive with machine-gun bullets on its first official presentation and the stunned silence is broken by a cry of ‘ Someone send for a paramedic ! ’ |
| 5 | The first race was off at two fifteen but on race day Cheltenham is up and running at first light . |