Example sentences of "[pron] thought [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | I thought at first that the sound , the terrorized shriek , was my last spurt , expressing itself . |
2 | Large red and white boats packed the harbour , and I thought at first that they must be private yachts . |
3 | ‘ I thought at first the food was a trap , but after you left the pink mixture I knew I could trust you . ’ |
4 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
5 | I thought at first they must be students . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ I thought at first , that 's not my kind of song , ’ said Rolf , more famous for Two Little Boys and Jake The Peg . |
8 | I thought at first you was a kind bloke , I did n't think you was goin' to help put me in me grave . ’ |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
11 | I thought at first she had taken it well , and then she went crazy . |
12 | ‘ 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 . |
13 | I thought at first she was ketch-rigged , but then decided she was more of a schooner . |
14 | As I said , I thought at first that the no boundary condition did indeed imply that disorder would decrease in the contracting phase . |
15 | I thought at first that Lady Eleanor had fainted . |
16 | I thought at first she was going to lend a hand . |
17 | ‘ I thought at first it must have been Ivy Cook , ’ Zen went on . |
18 | And I thought at first that it was good , because my mistress had lost her interest in life and I thought this might renew it . ’ |
19 | I thought at first it was too high but not for our hero . |
20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
21 | I thought at first they were racoons then I realised they were pandas . |
22 | She thought at first that it was an apple pip in her mouth . |
23 | She thought at first that his ordeal had been too much for him and that his mind was wandering . |
24 | She thought at first somebody had left a bundle of washing in the telephone box . |
25 | She thought at first it was something she had eaten . |
26 | She thought at first it had been shot . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | ‘ We thought at first that she had hidden herself deliberately , ’ said Nanette , ‘ and did n't bother too much . |
29 | He says having been there , the crash is n't over such a wide area as we thought at first . |
30 | We thought at first the Chinese had eaten all the other birds ! |