Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv prt] at the first " in BNC.

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1 I walked in at the first door I saw .
2 I looked back at the first .
3 I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head .
4 I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne .
5 I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading .
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