31.   But the first reactions were more defiant than defeatist.

32.   But this being Israel, the first reaction of the Antiquities Authority was to keep the discovery secret, which it succeeded in doing for two days.

33.   Deflated, my first reaction was to return to the hotel and watch television.

34.   Disrespect is the first reaction in Reinsdorf trying to dump Pippen.

35.   Disbelief was the first reaction for many of the men and women who see themselves as a family at the treatment center.

36.   Disbelief was his first reaction, but he eventually made contact with his birth mother, who had married and emigrated to Australia years earlier.

37.   First reaction this season was that the Braves had moved too fast with him.

38.   First reactions came via the Internet.

39.   Florisia Jean said that when the flood came, her first reaction was to grab her five children and whisk them away to safety.

40.   Fraser glances through the hotel window at a grim-looking urban vista obscured by gray mist, and recalls his first reaction to Los Angeles.