Cummings even had to ask the identity of the Irish member of the quadrumvirate, assuming at first it was Yeats. |
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Jeff said at first it felt uncomfortable, as if his hands were higher and the heel of his club was off the ground. |
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I'm trying to make sense of what appears at first sight to be the decline of the online journal. |
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It's a little too jazzy for my tastes at first, but the last hour is great, sweaty, junglist action. |
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He said he had not known at first whether or not to sign the petition, as people might think he was biased. |
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It's far too soon to know if there will be any takers, but at first brush France still appears to be seeing red. |
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Yes, it was at first glance quaint and seemingly out of time, but it was also monumentally impressive and alive. |
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I was a bit nervous at first but everyone has been very nice and made me welcome. |
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I thought it was a squirrel at first glance, but then wambengers kind of do look similar to squirrels. |
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They seemed all right at first but I suppose you can't judge a book by its cover. |
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The befuddled hosts at first tried to jolly Stewart into being the good-natured guest they'd expected. |
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I've never read the book, I'm afraid to say and didn't understand this question at first. |
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Both of the women said Swaby had been charming and swept them off their feet at first, buying them lots of gifts. |
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Thus she began her account with a detailed description of the appropriate behaviour of a collector engaging at first hand with the people. |
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You slept when you could, but you were always awake at first and last light in case of a surprise attack. |
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I politely refused at first, but after their urgings I finally shamefacedly admitted that I could only eat food cooked with bottled water. |
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When we found someone to explain our situation, we were at first told to jump the queue, and then told that we would not make our flight. |
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Without being able to speak Khmer, there's only so much I can learn at first but still, I'm really looking forward to it. |
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This nettles her at first and gradually the anger and irritation give way to a secret longing for him to look at her. |
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Like a lot of instrumental guitar music, Man On Stilts comes across, at first, as music accompaniment for a '60s spaghetti western. |
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I myself had doubts at first until I went further in and found clothes that are two of a kind. |
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In fact we might say that at first sight the Institutional Theory is practically required by Duchamp's first unassisted ready-made. |
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Alison, who is visibly affected by the reappearance of her old lover, at first tries to avoid him. |
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Being an action figure made me laugh at first because an icon was so far from the world I'd been living in in England. |
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Reluctant at first, he eventually acquiesced and has since taken the club from a lowly 20th to one of the four play-off spots. |
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He told police he was too afraid for himself and his family to tell the truth at first. |
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It was just whispers at first, reminiscent of those early rumours that eventually coalesced into the late-lamented National Post. |
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Both women admit, however, that getting their feet wet in the business world was a bit of a scary venture at first. |
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The Minister's ruling, in other words, is not quite the definitive decision it might seem at first. |
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Given his rap sheet, his shyness and soft voice are at first disconcerting. |
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It shows the reasons for what would seem at first sight to be mindless vandalism, but are in fact little acts of rebellion. |
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With the coming of popular sovereignty the idea of equality assumed a larger, if unintended and at first latent, significance. |
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After two afternoon workouts before the All-Star break to acquaint Caminiti with his new position, he started the second half at first base. |
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A wineglassful taken each morning before breakfast is the full dose, but at first it may be desirable to give only half this quantity. |
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She has really gone for it and it must have been so difficult for her at first in a place where no one spoke her language. |
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While at first glance brittle Callie is a somewhat tired stereotype of the jaded New Yorker, she's easy to warm up to. |
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She didn't want to swallow at first but it went down soon enough along with the third and final pill, this time without a hitch. |
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I was reluctant at first as the staff were nearly all youngsters in their teens and early twenties, but I decided to give it a go. |
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Mrs Foster said that although it was scary at first, she was rather hoping some of the pairs might fit. |
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Though Nora is at first reluctant about going away for the holidays, she soon warms to the idea. |
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I wondered at first how they always managed to catch us, and soon realized the balcony was our Achilles' heel. |
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Linda had been cautious around the men at first, though she hadn't snubbed them, but lately she was beginning to warm up to their attentions. |
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The Reaganites didn't want to adopt it at first, but eventually did because too many people in their own party began insisting on it. |
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I was wary of him at first and he had to ask my permission to give me a kiss. |
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There is, at first glance, an abyss between saying that one has had an experience of God and trusting that one can experience God in one's life. |
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However, the covers are generally woeful, neither standing out at first glance amidst a crowded newsstand, or providing any lasting meaning. |
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Christie, an archetypal tough guy happy warrior, at first dismissed accusations that the traffic jam was politically motivated. |
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They started to kiss, just lightly at first, and then with more passion. |
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Jared struggled at first, still in fight mode as he tried to worm out. |
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Moving down from the dashboard the gear-lever has a brushed alloy cover which, at first glance, makes this six-speed manual look like an automatic. |
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Harding at first thought he would be suitable as the question master, but, after his one attempt was wrecked thanks to backstage mistakes, that job went to Eamonn Andrews. |
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But when you drive it, you wonder at first what all the fuss is about. |
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You may also experience an increase in wind at first but this will settle. |
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Like most highly addictive substances, at first you're left feeling slightly queasy but once you get the taste, they soon become the centre of your universe. |
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The rate of advance of biotech is likely to accelerate to such an extent that many people who are alive right now will live to see aging become at first partially reversible. |
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The refugee stories are compelling at first, but horrific details are numbing. |
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Aim to keep your pulse rate between 65 and 75 per cent at first, as this will help to burn any excess fat as well as increasing your cardio-vascular fitness. |
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I found the white chocolate to be delicious at first but the Grand Marnier gave it a very sickly, sweet quality, which eventually became unbearable. |
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In her checkered uniform and starched white hat, and with her bubbly good spirits, Betty at first appears to be a familiar caricature of white-bread America. |
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What at first seems simply a deft homage comes to assume a dismal complexity. |
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I wasn't scared at first about becoming a mum, but as the months went on I started to worry about things like bathing her and putting her down to sleep properly. |
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Lou agreed, until the photographer suggested that Dahlgren pose in a fielding position at first base, with Lou cheering him on. |
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As for the judgment of sin being entrusted to the public assembly rather judging for oneself, at first glance polytheism really seems to show tolerant justice. |
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She seemed nice at first, but within a couple of days of them hooking up she started throwing her weight around, acting like they'd been going out for a year. |
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I read somewhere that at first you did not understand how bonsai could be made into a film. |
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The two major complaints minority communities have against the police seem at first glance paradoxical. |
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It may sound absurd at first flush, but politics and poker have a lot more than just bluffing in common. |
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Looking at the aggregated research, that would, at first glance, seem to be the case. |
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We were very happy when ISIS took over the area and drove the Iraq Army out and at first they behaved very well. |
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When he was 11, his father built him a banjo, at first fashioning the head out of groundhog hide. |
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But Ello is not the Shangri-La of social networks that it might appear to be at first blush. |
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And like Mailer, Amis was at first lionized by the media, then caricatured, and then vilified. |
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She does admit that at first she was panicking about being compared to her co-host. |
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The broad sweep of The Sleepwalkers seems at first to belie its central thesis. |
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I started just writing these songs, at first it felt like a project or something. |
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But, at first, Ariane trained for a different career, graduating from Columbia with a journalism degree. |
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Non-voters were deemed fanatics less dangerous than the Birney and Hale men, who chose at first between the two great debauched parties. |
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In 1970 WNO stopped using the Bournemouth and other orchestras and established its own, known at first as the Welsh Philharmonia. |
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Each hour La learned new words, all nouns at first, that described each familiar object that appeared oftenest to their view. |
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The widescale use of fossil fuels, coal at first and petroleum later, to fire steam engines enabled the Industrial Revolution. |
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The cold water flows near the surface and at first doesn't mix with the warmer, green waters of Upper Lake. |
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The stranded pup cries at first, and then becomes sedentary to conserve body fat. |
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The fleets sighted each other at first light on 29 May 1692, off Cap Barfleur. |
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He headed at first for the Straits of Gibraltar, intending to carry out Villeneuve's original orders and make for Toulon. |
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Herodotus says that the Neuri had Scythian customs, but they were at first not considered Scythian. |
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Quite naturally, these alternative forms were at first considered to be different species, until they were found growing in a conjoined manner. |
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They camp in the field to attack at first light, and their watchfires light the plain like stars. |
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The understanding of the kinematics of how exactly the rotation of the Earth affects airflow was partial at first. |
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The spices obtained from Southeast Asia were primarily pepper and cinnamon at first, but soon included other products, all new to Europe. |
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The 1992 moratorium was at first meant to last two years, hoping that the northern cod population would recover, and along with it the fishery. |
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Polling groups began to track opinions on the subject, at first mainly in the United States. |
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Modern scholars at first associated Baal Hammon with the Egyptian god Ammon of Thebes, both the Punic and the Egyptian being gods of the sun. |
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Beatrice and Henry planned to marry, but Victoria opposed the match at first, wishing to keep Beatrice at home to act as her companion. |
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While Mansfield Park was ignored by reviewers at first publication, it was a great success with the public. |
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The Romans recoiled at first but then Germanicus initiated destructive campaigns against those Germans whom the Romans blamed for their defeat. |
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Germania Inferior had Roman settlements since around 50 BC and was at first part of Gallia Belgica. |
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It is possible that at first the Chatti moved into place on the Rhine, in the old territory of the Ubii. |
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In the 14th century, much of the Greek peninsula was lost by the Byzantine Empire at first to the Serbs and then to the Ottomans. |
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Kublai declined at first but later reached a peace agreement with Jia Sidao. |
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Despite tensions between them, both Hulagu and Berke, khan of the Golden Horde, at first accepted Kublai's invitation. |
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Both Luzon and Visayas, at first, were more akin to tribal movements until the Spanish came. |
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Despite this, at first he thought staying and founding a city would serve well for his honor. |
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They were extremely successful at first and managed to capture Seoul just 18 days after their landing at Busan. |
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They were all very inquisitive, but they viewed me at first with looks of horror, and repeatedly asked if my countrymen were cannibals. |
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Following contact with the Portuguese on Tanegashima in 1542, the Japanese were at first rather wary of the newly arrived foreigners. |
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The Dutch retreated to the bow, where at first it seemed they were about to surrender. |
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Printed material among the Afrikaners at first used only standard European Dutch. |
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The definite article was at first a or ee, which was later replaced by the. |
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But they may also have become stops at first, softening to fricatives in most positions later. |
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Yet it is not mentioned by descriptive phoneticians until the early 20th century, and even then at first only in American English. |
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In addition to expansion at first use, some publications also have a key listing all acronyms used therein and what their expansions are. |
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The judge at first instance refused to leave the defence of medical necessity to the jury so the defendant changed his plea to guilty. |
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The General Court has jurisdiction, at first instance, in all other actions of this type and particularly in actions brought by individuals. |
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In the 1950s, an economic boom began in Italy, at first fuelled by internal demand, and then also by exports. |
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Deep mines were not required at first, so a large number of small operations sprang up. |
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Had there not been a degeneration from what God made us at first, there had been no need of a regeneration to reestate us in it. |
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Deep mines were not required at first so there were a large number of small operations. |
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Although at first I was puzzles, I did not have to ponder long the mystery of this man's renascence. |
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Locomotives were usually painted green at first, but in 1873 black was adopted as the standard livery. |
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Mr. Martin objected at first to the bastardization of my talent, but I gave him a sob story about needing money for lessons. |
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I was at first cautioned against Una boats, for I was told that they had an unpleasant tendency to turn upside down. |
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He was calm at first, then suddenly he came unglued and started screaming. He completely lost it. |
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Between two such unloquacious persons, dialogue was naturally slow at first, but they had a long drive before them. |
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Cast in dark bronze and resembling Roman antiquities, Riccio's small-scale statuettes, reliefs and oil lamps seem unremarkably modest at first. |
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I hated the film at first, but with subsequent viewings it has grown on me. |
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To communicate with friends, Kim and I used a Palm Beach answering service at first, and then a voicemailbox. |
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Aminta, of course, falls in love with Sylvia at first sight, and she, chaste votaress of Diana, is outraged. |
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Dad waited up at first, but by the end of sophomore year he was always in bed. |
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The demand at first was autonomy for Belgium, as the southern provinces were now called. |
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Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form. |
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The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. |
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The pure-bred Eskimo would at first glance seem to most of us Europeans anything but beautiful. |
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This suspicion of Earl Reimund, though at first but a buzz, soon got a sting in the king's head, and he violently apprehended it. |
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Although he seemed arbit at first, a few minutes of talking exposed a decent and well-mannered human being. |
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In fact, at first bluff, Hughes appeared to be the sort of man I could spend a lot of time with, both on the river and off. |
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It looks like a normal car at first sight. But when we open the hood, we discover something quite new. |
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In a game between Los Angeles and host Cincinnati, the Dodgers second baseman is called out at first base on a bang-bang play. |
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But some modern sources of information have served at first to bemuddle, and then when more carefully sifted, to clear up the story. |
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These ministers were at first confined to the three orders of bishops, priests, and deacons. |
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To stand up in the cockly boats in the rough swirling water was at first rather nervous work, but we soon got not to mind it. |
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The notion that different means of obtaining information may lead to different findings may be disconcerning at first but should not be. |
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She was dubious about my plan at first, but later I managed to persuade her to cooperate. |
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I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. |
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I thought they were joking at first, but it seemed they were genuinely interested in the talk about glaciers. |
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I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef. |
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Artists from outside Wales were also drawn to paint Welsh scenery, at first because of the Celtic Revival. |
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Under the leadership of Alfred the Great and his descendants, Wessex would at first survive, then coexist with, and eventually conquer the Danes. |
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They kept the framework of government but made changes in the personnel, although at first the new king attempted to keep some natives in office. |
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Ireland was ruled by the Lord of Ireland who had a hard time imposing his rule at first. |
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As he walked along, the inebriate, whose gait was at first unsteady, recovered his equilibrium and required less help. |
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Now made Duke of Somerset, he proceeded at first hesitantly, partly because his powers were not unchallenged. |
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Republicans, at first hostile to empire, only became supportive when Germany started to build her own colonial empire. |
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The Council of Officers at first attempted to come to some agreement with the leaders of Parliament. |
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James at first attempted to resist William, but saw that his efforts would prove futile. |
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Khomeini's approach to decision making is to keep his counsel at first, allowing the advocates of different options to debate issues openly. |
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Their names all sounded the same to me at first, and I had trouble keeping straight who was who. |
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The languette, at first very small, as in the genus Atypus, afterwards becomes elongated and advanced between the jaws. |
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Due to fears that borrowed money was to be called in and that foreign banks would demand their loans or raise interest, prices surged at first. |
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It sold briskly at first, despite its size, and was translated into many languages. |
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Dirac's attention was drawn to a mysterious mathematical relationship, at first sight unintelligible, that Heisenberg had reached. |
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This behaviour appears at first to be an evolutionary paradox, since helping others costs precious resources and decreases one's own fitness. |
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Soho House was at first occupied by Boulton relatives, and then by his first partner, John Fothergill. |
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The erection of the engine and its shakedown was supervised by Watt, at first, and then by men in the firm's employ. |
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Watt at first experimented with improving this method, but soon gave up on this approach because it was so cumbersome. |
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Beveridge, at first uninterested and seeing the committee as a distraction from his work on manpower, accepted only reluctantly. |
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Many of the Irish from Mayo and Sligo originated from a rural background, and at first struggled to adapt to urban life in Bradford. |
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A chair was, at first, a superintendent of a circuit within the district, but now ministers are appointed exclusively to the role. |
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The style was geometrical at first and flowing in the later period, owing to the omission of the circles in the window tracery. |
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From the beginning general programs were printed, at first for the summer season, and then on a daily basis. |
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Wintour, who at first objected to the plan, was convinced by Catesby to travel to the continent to seek help. |
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She was partly consoled by the visits of Hogg, whom she disliked at first but soon considered a close friend. |
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Claire Clairmont gave birth to a baby girl on 13 January, at first called Alba, later Allegra. |
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Sir Timothy Shelley had at first agreed to support his grandson, Percy Florence, only if he were handed over to an appointed guardian. |
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Popular at first, gradually raising the standard until I have created a public for classical and modern music. |
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He was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Air Force, at first analysing aerial photographs and later as an intelligence officer. |
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The play is set in the gardens of a nursing home for mental patients, though this is not clear at first. |
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Most of its members were amateurs, but at first, they were reinforced by a small number of professionals. |
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Langer played some blistering strokes off Giles' bowling in particular, but survived a sharp chance to Marcus Trescothick at first slip. |
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The engines were far from competitive at first, but after development, the company powered six consecutive drivers championships. |
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Native peoples were at first utilized as slave labour by Europeans until a large number died from overwork and Old World diseases. |
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Macready's choice of characters was at first confined chiefly to the romantic drama. |
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Despite the similarities, Stone argued that a crucial difference was that the land grants under the timar system were not hereditary at first. |
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The CPGB at first supported the war, but after Joseph Stalin signed a treaty with Adolf Hitler, opposed it. |
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It did not go very well at first, with bad weather hindering many sorties early on. |
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Many of them at first seemed kind to him, but it turned out their motives were not entirely altruistic. |
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The House of Stuart's attempts to control the Outer Hebrides were then at first desultory and little more than punitive expeditions. |
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For example, at first historians emphasized that strikes became illegal in July 1940, and no trade union called one during the war. |
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When I turned it up and found it was McFerrin doing his usual multitracked, a cappella shtick, I was at first charmed. |
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Wilde was not, at first, even allowed paper and pen but Haldane eventually succeeded in allowing access to books and writing materials. |
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Pound broadcast over Rome Radio, although the Italian government was at first reluctant, concerned that he might be a double agent. |
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It was a difficult birth, and his mother Elizabeth, who hoped for a girl, was uncomfortable even looking at him at first. |
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He did this at first with paintings based on memory, some from his boyhood. |
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The work itself is very simplistic, featuring only the shark in a watery substance, which at first glance looks clear like glass. |
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Berlin's English was virtually nonexistent at first, but he became fluent within a year. |
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He donated some of his money, at first anonymously, to Austrian artists and writers, including Rainer Maria Rilke and Georg Trakl. |
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Joan at first was afraid of Wittgenstein, but they soon became good friends. |
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From what at first appears to be yet another decade of turmoil for Welsh rugby, is actually regarded as a period of revival. |
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The average age at first marriage among Saudi females is 25 years in Saudi Arabia, with child marriage no longer common. |
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Inevitably, the government behaved harshly at first towards some of those caught in arms. |
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The MacNeil leadership itself was among the migrants, settling at first in Canada, but moving to America by the 20th century. |
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An appeal may also be made to the High Court if the High Court itself heard the case at first instance. |
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He had gained three years concentrated military experience in different theatres and seen at first hand some key events and people. |
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The post of Minister of Welsh Affairs was first established in 1951, but was at first held by the UK Home Secretary. |
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Hafod, at first called New Ruabon Colliery, was once the biggest employer in the area. |
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Guerrero looked stunned while standing at first base and later went into the dugout to wait out the delay. |
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When they meet again on the Campo di Santa Margherita, Pinocchio is caged in a wastebin and not at first recognized. |
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It may feel sharp at first and then give way to achiness you feel during and after running. |
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The new AMC series Turn, which premieres April 6, is bewildering at first. |
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The screw was very tight so we couldn't get the Allen key to work at first, which is when I got a hack saw and started to try to cut the hinge. |
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Ewan had at first filmed the music video for the song with director Jad Shuwairi, but then redone it with director Mai El Yas. |
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Cressida was, at first, determined to make the break-up stick. |
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Yet on a recent visit to the Republic of Malta I confess that, at first glance, I found it a bit. |
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And yet at first it seemed hard to believe that so innocent a cloudling could be the progenitor of mist dense enough to blot out even a section of the enormous landscape. |
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This ad hocracy reported to me only periodically at first, and those reports were sandwiched between other pressing, but somewhat normal, affairs of state. |
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I didn't like the idea at first, but they eventually talked me over. |
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She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee! |
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And they had fallen into something that was at least infatuation at first sight, woozily reconfiguring each other to match their own aspirations and illusions. |
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There is nothing unusual at first appearance of this man who Barnumized the Classics and shook them and modern stage production into a new vitality. |
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There is loads of window space in this car, almost like wrapround vision, so it is ideal for those who may be, at first, a little nervous about going it alone on the roads. |
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The Romans at first sustained significant losses against the Insubres while they were attempting to cross a ford near the junction of the Po and the Adda. |
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For a short period after their marriage, Clarence and Grace Hemingway lived at first with Grace's father, Ernest Hall, their first son's namesake. |
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Successful at first at containing them, they finally had to concede defeat, allowing Clovis's Salian Franks to occupy the region at the end of the 5th century. |
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Farming in Belgium however failed to take permanent hold at first. |
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She did not seem too happy to see us at first, but relaxed after she had shown us round their garden and we had tasted redcurrants and gooseberries. |
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He held at first that this work had originated from a Ravennate workshop. |
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The condition was at first thought more serious than it turned out to be, and he announced that he would resign as Prime Minister as soon as a successor was appointed. |
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The court's records were at first held by its justices and their clerks. |
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These divisions were at first of geographical significance only, not used as a basis for the government of the colony, which was centralised in Auckland. |
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Whether they were plosives or fricatives at first is therefore not clear. |
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Precommercial societies at first lacked any concept of ownership at all, and when a concept of ownership did develop it was predominantly communal. |
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Dessalines at first offered protection to the white planters and others. |
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Some presence of Berbers in the northwest may have been maintained at first, but after the 740s there is no more mention of the northwestern Berbers in the sources. |
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The pitcher attempted to pick off the runner at first, but he was safe. |
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It was thought at first that arson may have been the cause of the fire, but investigation found that it had been caused by two gas cylinders in the kitchen. |
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Penzance railway station, the terminus of the West Cornwall Railway, opened on 11 March 1852 on the eastern side of the harbour, although trains only ran to Redruth at first. |
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Odysseus is welcomed and is not at first asked for his name. |
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John, the youngest of five sons of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine, was at first not expected to inherit significant lands. |
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Jean Fouquet, the most famous medieval French painter, is said to have been the first to travel to Italy and experience the Early Renaissance at first hand. |
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In May 2017, with much of the former Billiton assets having been disposed of, BHP Billiton began to rebrand itself as BHP, at first in Australia and then globally. |
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Founded in 1888, Glamorgan held minor status at first and was a prominent member of the early Minor Counties Championship before the First World War. |
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The growth in wind capacity at first lagged behind the expansion of nuclear installations, but then it started to grow faster and is now outpacing nuclear. |
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Soviet Russia was at first happy to help these immigrants settle, because they believed they were victims of capitalism who had come to help the Soviet cause. |
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They are bitter at first but after about 1 second, they become sweet. |
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He was at first extremely successful, and the London and North Western Railway ran a daily service with special vans to carry his products to Euston station in London. |
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Relations between King Henry and Montfort were cordial at first. |
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General Fleetwood showed a copy of this letter to the Protector, who was at first inclined to regard it merely as a politic device to escape imprisonment. |
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Their son Duncan, born on 30 May 1971, was at first known as Zowie. |
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Gordon, objected to Sargent's fast tempi, at least at first. |
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Little did I think, at first, of making one, much less two volumes of it. |
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Sales were slow at first, but now things are really motoring. |
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As early as February 1933, Hitler announced that rearmament must be undertaken, albeit clandestinely at first, as to do so was in violation of the Versailles Treaty. |
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The main French assault was launched on 25 September and, at first, made good progress in spite of surviving wire entanglements and machine gun posts. |
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On 4 April 2012, plans were unveiled to launch a South Sudanese national airline, primarily for domestic service at first but eventually expanding to international service. |
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His constant pressure appeared to make Mayweather uncomfortable at first. |
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Hawke succeeded Emmett in 1883 and remained as official captain for 27 years, but at first he was careful to take his time and did not make too many changes. |
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Tolkien at first intended The Lord of the Rings to be a children's tale in the style of The Hobbit, but it quickly grew darker and more serious in the writing. |
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Hamlet does well at first, leading the match by two hits to none, and Gertrude raises a toast to him using the poisoned glass of wine Claudius had set aside for Hamlet. |
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The discoveries, made by Paul Bahn, Sergio Rippoll and Paul Pettitt, included an animal figure at first thought to be an ibex but later identified as a stag. |
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King Oswald, who after his years of exile had a perfect command of Irish, often had to translate for Aidan and his monks, who did not speak English at first. |
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Cavalieri's work was not well respected since his methods could lead to erroneous results, and the infinitesimal quantities he introduced were disreputable at first. |
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The Caddo and related Caddo language speakers in prehistoric times and at first European contact were the direct ancestors of the modern Caddo Nation of Oklahoma of today. |
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The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. |
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But though intriguing at first, his knowingly enigmatic narration, stylish antichoreography and overripe cinematography wear thin in the long run. |
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While British elites at first hoped the Commonwealth would preserve and project British influence, they gradually lost their enthusiasm, argues Krishnan Srinivasan. |
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The canal system grew rapidly at first, and became an almost completely connected network covering the South, Midlands, and parts of the North of England and Wales. |
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In 1685, when James II succeeded Charles, William at first attempted a conciliatory approach, at the same time trying not to offend the Protestants in England. |
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The correspondence between William and the English politicians was, at first, sent by ordinary post to genuine addresses in either country and then distributed. |
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After the death of Cromwell in 1658, Charles's chances of regaining the Crown at first seemed slim as Cromwell was succeeded as Lord Protector by his son, Richard. |
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Each yob would spend, at first, one month at Her Majesty's pleasure. |
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By all accounts, James was at first infatuated with Anne and, in the early years of their marriage, seems always to have showed her patience and affection. |
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This sometimes caused a labour shortage for plantations and public works and so the colonists informally and gradually, at first, initiated the Atlantic slave trade. |
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The 1547 Injunctions against images were a more tightly drawn version of those of 1538, but they were more fiercely enforced, at first informally, and then by instruction. |
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Neither of those two formerly mortal enemies entertained the notion at first, but eventually they were brought round to realise the potential benefits. |
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The following years saw more direct involvement by English armies, including in the Breton War of Succession, but these interventions also proved fruitless at first. |
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The English soldiers formed up as a shield wall along the ridge and were at first so effective that William's army was thrown back with heavy casualties. |
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The English soldiers formed up as a shield wall along the ridge, and were at first so effective that William's army was thrown back with heavy casualties. |
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The new college hallmates were awkward with each other at first, but after a game of charades as an icebreaker, they were laughing like old friends. |
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It was highly decentralized at first, with the territorial dukes having practical sovereignty in their duchies, especially in the southern duchies of Spoleto and Benevento. |
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The shore along which they rowed was, at first, wooded to the water line. |
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Hold the asana for a few seconds at first and up to 5 minutes. |
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Most famous for the last and largest member of the clade, Tyrannosaurus rex, tyrannosaurids at first glance seem very far removed from the ostrichlike ornithomimosaurs. |
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I didn't like this song at first, but now it's starting to grow on me. |
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It may be wondered, at first sight, that the innumerable texts left by Buddhism give us no positive information with regard to the meaning and origin of the trisula. |
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The infield is at double play depth with one out and a man at first. |
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Thus this box is a coppel in which... the bitternesses and tartnesses which at first seem grating, the flavour which evaporates in a momentary enjoyment, are put to the test. |
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Then he had bent and kissed her parted lips, gently at first, then passionately, drawing her, dishclout and suds and all, into his strong brown arms. |
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