Example sentences of "[pers pn] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She at first regarded the episode as a nightmare : ‘ I dreamed I seemed to you all to have died . ’ |
| 2 | Never having taken much interest in the garden at Four Winds , other than it being a place in which to read or play solitary games , she at first decided that it was probably best to let him have his way ; but his silences began to unnerve her , as much as his occasional seemingly innocent remarks about his previous employers . |
| 3 | The plates flickered past , solemn and beautiful faces , sleeping soldiers , angels carrying flutes , and then a page fell open more easily because , slipped into it , she found a sheet of the villa 's notepaper on which was typed what she at first thought to be a shopping-list , but , as she began to read , discovered it was no such thing . |
| 4 | In interview , she at first denied being dishonest but later admitted it . |
| 5 | Her current job is marketing controller for South East sales region , but when she left University she at first had no idea what she wanted to do . |
| 6 | When the audience broke into applause on first beholding the characteristically extravagant set she at first appeared dumbfounded and then sat back in her seat rather stiffly . |
| 7 | She at first refuses to help him , suspecting a trap to catch her out in witchery , but as the clerk , Wilekin , persists she finally agrees to solve the problem , accepting twenty shillings in payment . |
| 8 | It 's bound to be a bit strange for you at first , but saying you wo n't make love to your own husband in your own house because of the servants … ’ |
| 9 | Then he looked more closely , and exclaimed : ‘ Ruth — I did n't recognise you at first ! ’ |
| 10 | But I did n't recognize you at first . |
| 11 | Flat brush strokes and dragged ones were compared and there was a realization that ‘ … if you isolate any area of paint … you 're looking at a much more complex thing than you at first thought you were ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't realise it was you at first . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I felt like you at first , then I realised what it meant . |
| 14 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 15 | I did n't find you at first , so I went to the bathroom . |
| 16 | In the French class nowadays the important thing is to SPEAK French — the sound of your voice in French may seem strange to you at first but you have a go right away and you will see what fun it can be . |
| 17 | they put everything do n't you at first when you go up there all the family there . |
| 18 | We at first wanted to know each other , then knowing became friends , and every day as our knowledge increased , greater liking , deeper sympathy , and so on to love and feeling our love , knowing it to be true , pure , and everlasting ; then the desire for the perfect life of unity , and then of giving the world the benefit of our love by a little child . |
| 19 | After all , it 's now only afternoon tea , instead of lunch as we at first thought it would be . ’ |
| 20 | Very very much more effective , perhaps more so than we at first realize , although it is almost obvious when we reflect further . |
| 21 | I did n't believe him at first . |
| 22 | It was strange for him at first but he soon came to enjoy it and did his best to improve the sporting standards and attitudes . |
| 23 | ‘ He will like you and he will need you for you speak English and he speaks no Italian and not even his brother will be able to speak to him at first . ’ |
| 24 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 25 | You may have to help him at first , but as he progresses , he can tackle more complicated puzzles . |
| 26 | You may need to watch him at first , so that you can clean and dress any grazes or cuts immediately . |
| 27 | I liked him at first , but … ’ |
| 28 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 29 | Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt . |
| 30 | He said , ‘ There was such a crowd round the chap on the table I could n't see him at first . |