Example sentences of "[pron] think [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 31 | She thought at first somebody had left a bundle of washing in the telephone box . |
| 32 | She thought at first it was something she had eaten . |
| 33 | She thought at first it had been shot . |
| 34 | You think at first that you have no choice , that it 's not up to you to decide on things like boyfriends — he 's sexy or he 's ugly — that you can just forget it . |
| 35 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | ‘ We thought at first that she had hidden herself deliberately , ’ said Nanette , ‘ and did n't bother too much . |
| 38 | He says having been there , the crash is n't over such a wide area as we thought at first . |
| 39 | We thought at first the Chinese had eaten all the other birds ! |
| 40 | When the King saw me , he thought at first that I must be a mechanical toy . |
| 41 | When he saw the black-haired woman sitting beside the stream , he thought at first she was simply another ephemeral vision transmitted by the trees . |