Example sentences of "[verb] it at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The goat does n't know it at first , but learns . |
| 2 | She unfolded the page of blue paper and focused on the letter instead , hardly understanding it at first reading . |
| 3 | I ca n't say that I did honestly enjoy it at first . |
| 4 | ‘ Even if you do n't enjoy it at first , why not give pleasure to others ? |
| 5 | I should have done it at first ; I could have paid it then . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 7 | It is so easy to overdo it at first so please be gentle with yourself . |
| 8 | People might do it at first , there might be like an epidemic of wow it 's so cool we can smoke at school |
| 9 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 10 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 11 | I could n't believe it at first that the problem was so simple ; in fact I walked out of that lesson without any pain at all … the first time for twenty months . |
| 12 | I could n't believe it at first : I 'd been so careful . |
| 13 | I did n't believe it at first . |
| 14 | I could n't believe it at first . |
| 15 | I did n't really believe it at first , er , and then I received couple or more phone calls from er various people in the industry who er , who were aware of it and started to congratulate me , and then I realised that it was the truth , that er I really did have a big hit record once again with Blue Velvet . |
| 16 | She hated it at first , she would n't drive it . |
| 17 | But she hated it at first . |
| 18 | You did n't see it at first , but you saw if you held you head at the right angle . |
| 19 | Robert could not understand it at first , but , after he put his ear back to the window , it resolved itself into two syllables : |
| 20 | It did n't like it at first , and moved and beat against the sides of the plastic and the neck of the can while I held it and sweated , listening to the hum of the insects and the rustling of the grass , staring at Blyth as he lay there still and silent , his dark hair ruffled now and again by the breeze . |
| 21 | You we you did n't like it at first ? |
| 22 | I did n't like it at first cos all the animation was all too fuzzy and wobbly and everything I can remember cos I did n't think it was as good as the Magic Roundabout but then yeah I love it now . |
| 23 | To lighten what can be quite an anxiety provoking experience , it is sometimes helpful to ask the client to role play a particular situation , but to do it at first , extremely badly . |
| 24 | She had refused to believe it at first , her mind so full of him that her eyes kept on seeing him , playing tricks on her , raising false and cruel hopes . |
| 25 | I did n't want to believe it at first , ’ she told him shakily , ‘ but I can now . |
| 26 | The systematic putting together of parts to a purposeful design is something we know and understand , for we have experienced it at first hand , even if only with our childhood Meccano or Erector set . |
| 27 | He had not believed it at first , but now he was not so sure . |
| 28 | Alec took it at first for a whale . |
| 29 | It was cancer of the bowel , though the doctors were slow or unwilling to diagnose it at first . |
| 30 | A more fundamental difficulty with the new examination is contained in the very principle that made it at first sight so attractive — its applicability to the full ability range . |