Example sentences of "think at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or so he had thought at first , hearing her voice , looking round the well-furnished rooms , the shelves full of old china figures , in her polished house . |
| 2 | They have generally been found by the chance of fieldwork and aerial reconnaissance and many are awaiting discovery ; when they are studied in detail they are often found to be much larger than thought at first , covering areas , in some cases , of over 100 acres . |
| 3 | He was altogether too handsome , she had thought at first . |
| 4 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 5 | He had thought at first that the man was lost and required instructions , but realised after the words had blown away that it was a quiet inquiry for cash . |
| 6 | Thomas had thought at first that it was a shadow . |
| 7 | Abbott thought at first that Cambridge was bound to win . |
| 8 | A soft animal noise like gargling Dot thought at first must be Gloria 's breathing . |
| 9 | She thought at first that it was an apple pip in her mouth . |
| 10 | Dot thought at first she meant it was unkind for the man to be so constricted by the many instruments strapped to all parts of his body . |
| 11 | Jacob thought at first , perhaps , that he was wrestling with a brother intent on killing him and getting his revenge . |
| 12 | I thought at first that the sound , the terrorized shriek , was my last spurt , expressing itself . |
| 13 | Large red and white boats packed the harbour , and I thought at first that they must be private yachts . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought at first the food was a trap , but after you left the pink mixture I knew I could trust you . ’ |
| 15 | Stephanie , a mere stripling of 50 , thought at first she was n't old enough for her part , but two hours of make-up , a wig and plenty of padding soon solved that problem . |
| 16 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 17 | I thought at first they must be students . |
| 18 | I thought at first that he was merely taking an open-air path to his own bedroom , but he went straight past the open door at the end of his sleeping car , and straight on past the next car also . |
| 19 | She thought at first that his ordeal had been too much for him and that his mind was wandering . |
| 20 | She bent over the bed and thought at first that she was too late . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought at first , that 's not my kind of song , ’ said Rolf , more famous for Two Little Boys and Jake The Peg . |
| 22 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 23 | I thought at first you was a kind bloke , I did n't think you was goin' to help put me in me grave . ’ |
| 24 | She thought at first somebody had left a bundle of washing in the telephone box . |
| 25 | ‘ When I was in Egypt I thought at first that the sun and the desert , the empty sky and the empty sand — that there was nowhere more grand . |
| 26 | She thought at first it was something she had eaten . |
| 27 | When the King saw me , he thought at first that I must be a mechanical toy . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought at first , what was the mother like since there 's so little of the Flowers in any of them , since they are so good and clean and wipe their noses always on their handkerchiefs and never on their sleeves7 But the veneer is rubbing off already . ’ |
| 29 | I thought at first she had taken it well , and then she went crazy . |
| 30 | ‘ Once I cut the neckline wrong on three hundred dresses and I thought at first I 'd just keep quiet and fill the gap with lace . |