Example sentences of "he at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking in the titles from left to right , he at first saw little of interest:Queer Things About Egypt ; Wonderful Nests , by the Rev. J. G. Wood ; The Elements of Mechanism ; Highways and Byways in the West Country … |
| 2 | When Meese handed North the memorandum , he at first showed no surprise . |
| 3 | When he started ‘ writing in earnest ’ , after the war when he also joined a club for the hard of hearing which had a great effect on his life , he at first concentrated on prose , turning to the medium of poetry about 20 years later . |
| 4 | Grave and reserved at the vicious court of his drunken , slobbering but affable father , he at first resented but then became emotionally dependent on the King 's ebullient favourite the Duke of Buckingham . |
| 5 | The fact that he had been given the Elphberg name of Rudolf by a Royalist father was of small importance to him , nor was he at first more than casually intrigued when he woke from a strangely prophetic dream in the forest of Zenda to hear two men discussing the remarkable resemblance between him and the King . |
| 6 | The return to gold was Churchill 's decision , even though , within the Treasury , he at first was hard to convince . |
| 7 | When Henry , who had not been present at the death-bed , arrived for the funeral , he at first refused to take the oath but eventually , confronted by his father 's decomposing body , he agreed to do so . |
| 8 | Looking around the stable he at first failed to see Seb , until he looked upwards . |