Example sentences of "at first [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel at first that on a bad day ( there are quite a few ) Patrick might give it one of the kicks that the novelist seems about to direct at his readers . |
| 2 | The faint silvery-white outline of his robe and his face were clearly discernible to her at all times , and so overpowering was the experience at first that in the early morning , as she poured out a cup of tea , she would pour a second cup and absent-mindedly walk towards the chair and say : ‘ Here 's a cup of tea for you , ’ and then jolt back to reality , shaking her head : ‘ Agh , I must be mad ! |
| 3 | Some pots can look rather sparse at first but with good compost , regular feeding and attention to watering , they soon fill out into good-sized plants . |
| 4 | Extinguishers were used at first but to no avail . |
| 5 | Endill did not hear anything at first but after a minute or two heard what he thought was a cough in the distance . |
| 6 | ‘ The beast was terrifying at first but after a while you realised he was a big softie underneath . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |
| 8 | Josie Lawrence 's girlish reading is rather daunting at first but in fact hits the right note for this unexpectedly cheering and totally unsentimental little fable . |
| 9 | Among the 22 religious , cultural and residence groups represented in the nine countries that participated in the WHO studies , this pattern is lacking in only six and , in them , the frequency of abortions is just slightly higher at first than at second pregnancies . |
| 10 | Yet even migraine detained me with its potential , at first because of the popular assumption that it is above all a neurotic disorder and therefore confined to unstable personalities . |
| 11 | It seemed to be an impossible dream at first because of the distance and the difficulties . |
| 12 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |
| 13 | With her there is another bird which at first and with excitement we take for a king eider , but closer inspection reveals it to be an immature eider drake still paddling along near his mother . |
| 14 | Resuming the journey from Stone House Bridge , the road now starts a long climb to its summit , rising gently at first and with the Dee an inseparable companion alongside . |
| 15 | Hobbes 's systematic conception of politics as dependent on ethics and then , via ethics , on physics , means that his natural philosophy must be looked at first and in most detail . |