Example sentences of "[verb] at the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 2 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 3 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 4 | Knocking at the first door , he was greeted by a woman with a cigarette in her mouth , curlers in her hair and flour on her hands . |
| 5 | Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) . |
| 6 | He stopped at the first opportunity , and emerged with a lead of 45secs . |
| 7 | We stopped at the first bar we came to and walked inside , to where Johnson and Fleming , two English legionnaires , were drinking . |
| 8 | She sipped the wine , picked at the first course and let James Hamilton carry the conversation . |
| 9 | They er they used to come at the first , and I 'll tell you this and I , it 's my opinion , they got one of their own men er I 'd foxed them off , you know what I mean , to do their own odd jobs . |
| 10 | This section concentrates on the second and third of these phases ; Section 5.2 looks at the first phase . |
| 11 | When you press the Enter key , DOS looks at the first word in the string of characters you 've typed in and compares it to a list of command names stored in the file called COMMAND.COM . |
| 12 | This section looks at the first two of these applications . |
| 13 | He ought therefore to disappear at the first opportunity , especially since the purpose of his stay , that of meeting Katja Müller , appeared to have lost its point … |
| 14 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |
| 15 | The issue brings together the main papers presented at the first Latin American consultation of representatives of theological seminaries who met together in July 1990 to discuss the role of communication and theology in their institutions . |
| 16 | Lawrence Woodward , director of Elm Farm Research Centre , a small newly formed charity set up to research and develop organic agriculture , wrote to Prince Charles asking if he would speak at the first organic food conference to be held in Cirencester in January 1983 . |
| 17 | We sailed at the first light of day . |
| 18 | In looking at the first of these it must be recognized that no map , however detailed or carefully compiled , can perfectly represent the ‘ ground truth ’ , while in the second instance , the digitizing process merely serves to compound the errors present in the original map ( Poiker 1982 ; Blakemore 1984 ) . |
| 19 | This becomes clearer by looking at the first two stanzas . |
| 20 | you believe , well what are we looking at here , page seventy eight , it 's been produced by er for are we looking at the first brochure , or an updated version or what ? |
| 21 | We looking at the first meeting to make sure . |
| 22 | Let's see if we can refine those like us looking at the first two lines of the play . |
| 23 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 24 | Those results would suggest that the other tumours were in fact new tumours , rather than persistent tumours which had been missed at the first cystoscopy . |
| 25 | In situations like this , it was not our practice or the practice of Labov 's fieldworkers in Philadelphia to interrupt proceedings in order to renegotiate permission to record ; in Belfast such permission was sought at the first contact with each household . |
| 26 | And his heart sang as he settled his lance in rest again , and drove at the first and readiest knight who caught his eye . |
| 27 | The gunners had been ordered to aim at the first two vessels , and at a bare two hundred yards ' range they could scarcely miss . |
| 28 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |
| 29 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 30 | ‘ Stop at the first one ? ’ he repeated disbelievingly . |