Example sentences of "and at first " in BNC.
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1 | When I approached and held a piece of chicken out to him he opened his eyes in surprise and at first refused to take it . |
2 | When Tikhon was placed under house arrest in June 1922 , one of these movements , the Living Church , was given numerous concessions by the regime , and at first looked set to take over the role and some of the property of the Orthodox . |
3 | And at first it was nice because there was more money coming into the house , and they could feed the gas monster and have hot water and fires . |
4 | Because it was an impermanent unofficial arrangement , the pairing family held no property and at first presented no threat to the communally held property of the gens . |
5 | It worked , and at first it seemed a perfect arrangement . |
6 | They were in their early thirties , so 1 did not feel too out of place from the point of view of age , and at first no one took any notice of me , as if they thought I was just another mature student . |
7 | It was on this visit that Dana did something I found surprising and at first puzzling . |
8 | And at first it freaks you out . |
9 | The town centre hotels which were suggested were fiendishly expensive and at first I was told nothing else was available . |
10 | ‘ They have a very complex structure and at first sight they appear not to be connected in any way , ’ said Professor Mann . |
11 | Both tortoises and armadillos are animals that carry around their own suit of armour , and at first glance we might think they were related . |
12 | It was led by French physicians and at first it simply confirmed the most pessimistic of common views . |
13 | And at first this beast had made a low girning , growling sound , but now he hushed his threatening , and waved his tail slowly , and the little grey man said , ‘ Otto is of the opinion that you are honest . |
14 | The previous Government , however , had already pointed to the need to revitalize urban economies , and at first the shift was more rhetorical than real . |
15 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
16 | This consecration was arranged by Rainald , for blatantly political reasons , and at first Frederick would not accept such an obvious ploy on the part of his chancellor to gain control of papal authority . |
17 | It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute . |
18 | I do n't think I went to bed , and at first light Father O'Sullivan came into my office . |
19 | We 'd been planning to completely redecorate our home from top to bottom , and at first I just could n't face doing it alone . |
20 | I went out on to the roof to have a look and at first I could see nothing amiss . |
21 | Madeleine left them alone after a while , and at first Grégoire was shy and hardly spoke . |
22 | It is not so much doubtful about Christianity as diffident about itself , and at first sight this looks appealing . |
23 | The Offset represents the weird and wonderful , and at first glance has the same unsettling effect as an optical illusion . |
24 | We went through all this a couple of years ago with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys and at first I thought Matchbox must be deliberately creating a shortage to whip up demand . |
25 | It was dreary beyond belief , and at first it had the effect of offsetting his own emotional night . |
26 | I saw him as often as I could and at first we concentrated on his anger . |
27 | Nevertheless , Bob Smith kept edging her towards Malta and at first light they saw the island over the long swells following the storm . |
28 | They had gone away together , she and Paul , to Papa 's fury ; and at first had been wildly happy . |
29 | All of them have to hear people 's needs regularly and at first hand , and judge for themselves how well they ( and other lesbian and gay services ) are meeting them . |
30 | This , as he writes about the brevity of human life , he is moved to exclaim , ‘ So I have seen a rose newly sprung from the clefts of its hood , and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb 's fleece ’ , and he continues to describe its life until ‘ it bowed the head and broke its stalk and at night having lost some of its leaves , and all its beauty , it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces ’ . |