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to start with1At first: she wasn’t very keen on the idea to start with...- OK, so lots of people think that going deep into a dark, narrow cave is a bad idea to start with.
- Ren had been against the idea to start with saying it was too public, there was too great a risk that someone would recognise one of us.
- The audience sat sedately to start with, expecting a traditional folk dance.
1.1As the first thing to be taken into account: to start with, I was feeling down...- It's causing me worry and depression and my health is not good to start with because I have emphysema and arthritis.
- So, to start with, these are the films that I could watch over and over.
- It just makes me wonder who the heck has called him a genius to start with?
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