Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] first [pron] be " in BNC.
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1 | I thought at first they were racoons then I realised they were pandas . |
2 | I thought at first she was ketch-rigged , but then decided she was more of a schooner . |
3 | I thought at first she was going to lend a hand . |
4 | I thought at first you was a kind bloke , I did n't think you was goin' to help put me in me grave . ’ |
5 | ‘ I jettisoned the wood , climbed down the path and there , neatly stashed away in a narrow inlet between the rocks , was my castaway , complete with gash on temple , soaked through , ice-cold to the touch and so deeply unconscious I thought at first you were dead . ’ |
6 | I thought at first it was too high but not for our hero . |
7 | Well , I think at first they were both afraid to become music specialists , but she knows so much now — good contemporary pop music , not just my music — that she wants to be involved with it and she refuses to be professionally involved unless she has expert knowledge . |
8 | She did n't say and I , I never thought to ask her , no she did n't say so we 're just , that 's why really as I say I do n't , I think at first she was quite happy for us to go in and maybe take stuff in , but I do n't think she was happy about us doing structural things on it |