Example sentences of "she 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 . |