Example sentences of "[prep] first [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In case Lord Milton missed the importance of making this change , Campbell took the trouble of repeating the request three days after first suggesting it , which was clearly long before the judge could have hoped to arrange such an alteration . |
| 2 | I could n't believe he had asked me minutes after first meeting him . |
| 3 | Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them . |
| 4 | He strangled her — after first manacling her with handcuffs , torturing her and sexually assaulting her , the prosecution alleged . |
| 5 | It is a simple matter of first locating them , recognising the best time to do the job and then dealing with them by night netting , snaring , and so on . |
| 6 | The advantage , however , of first letting them improvise more freely in small groups is that with careful monitoring you can see what 's interesting them , what they want to explore in their drama . |
| 7 | From first to last he kept himself out of the public limelight . |
| 8 | She twigged what I was driving at … that I suspected Alain had been murdered … and decided to get in first to throw me off the scent . |
| 9 | Those who invite friends or partners to share their rooms for short or long periods , without first discussing it with co-tenants , are bound to create resentment , let alone increased pressure on shared facilities . |
| 10 | Did you discuss this with Silvio without first discussing it with me ? ’ |
| 11 | In you preliminary discussions with local client , do not make any detailed commitments with respect to fees or services without first clearing them with the participating member . |
| 12 | It is possible now to go through the whole liberal arts course at Stanford University without ever reading Shakespeare ( a DWEM ) and there are many musems in the US now which can not contemplate an exhibition without first measuring it up against the PC yardstick . |
| 13 | Spectrum denies the EGM was illegal and says existing shareholders can not sell shares to outsiders without first offering them to inside investors . |
| 14 | Never accept any invitation , however flattering it may appear , without first checking it . |
| 15 | Joe Longthorne is an abundantly talented performer and on first meeting him during the early days of his success I was struck by his lack of conceit . |
| 16 | When he recalled how he had felt on first seeing her he had to push the sinful thoughts out of his mind . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought that they were extinct , ’ Zach had said on first seeing her riding it . |
| 18 | ‘ What infinite variety presents itself in this enchanting spot , ’ wrote Abbot in his diary on first seeing it . |
| 19 | On first encounter it can sound pedestrian , but there 's always something not quite right about the melodies they produce , and the more curiosity that provokes , the more you 're sucked in . |
| 20 | The girl , whoever she was , despite the aristocratic looks and fine body which had at first misled them , would only have found houseroom within the palace compound as an under-servant . |
| 21 | Gundovald claimed to be a son of Chlothar I. Chlothar denied the claim , but his brother Childebert I at first accepted it , as also did Chlothar 's son Charibert I. Despite this support , Gundovald was rejected by Sigibert , another of Chlothar 's sons , so he went to Italy , where he was received by the Byzantine general , Narses , and from there to Constantinople . |
| 22 | However , Major John Wiseman , M.C. , at first told me categorically ( in a private communication ) that my husband had not been in ‘ A ’ Squadron , but later kindly wrote to me to correct this statement . |
| 23 | We shall take it that their surface structure is : ( 44 ) This may at first make them seem somewhat analogous to the predicate qualifiers , except that the noun phrase beyond the mediating verb is here the subject of the clause rather than the object as with the predicate qualifiers , and it is to the entity of this noun phrase that the property of the adjective applies . |
| 24 | Pots of money and willing at first to squire her to the latest ‘ in ’ restaurants and nightspots , charity balls , Henley , Ascot , the whole shebang . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Undoubtedly if the justices had proceeded to adjudicate on the case either by convicting or by acquitting the defendant , that would have afforded ground for a good plea to the indictment , but I can not see why the fact that the justices at first said they would deal summarily with the case and afterwards changed their minds should be said to have deprived quarter sessions of jurisdiction . |
| 26 | Her mother , although made aware of her plight , at first said she intended to continue her holiday . |
| 27 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 28 | Tom Jones , one of his most intimate associates and normally a very shrewd observer , at first thought him very slow . |
| 29 | At first thought it may seem strange that the anti-Semite 's outlook should be related to that of the Negrophobe . |
| 30 | When she did arrive , my parents at first thought it was 'flu . |