Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean at first I did n't know what you mean , but I do now . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage . |
| 4 | I think at first she blamed Michael , the first few days . |
| 5 | But she could n't ever see me , though I think at first she knew I was around , so now I mostly stay where I am and amuse myself with some of the other kids who are here too . |
| 6 | I think it was a bit strange , I think at first was n't it ? |
| 7 | I think at first glance you ca n't really see . |
| 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 |
| 9 | I laugh at first , and then look away , because though I know she 's only kidding , it is sexy just the same . |
| 10 | You feel at first that on a bad day ( there are quite a few ) Patrick might give it one of the kicks that the novelist seems about to direct at his readers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
| 13 | Well you I had to load for h for him you see at first . |
| 14 | Given the fact that much of the property in the western half of the country was sub-let to under-tenants at rack rents , it is doubtful whether regional differences were as pronounced as they appear at first sight . |
| 15 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 16 | Outrageous they seem at first . |
| 17 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 18 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 19 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 20 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 21 | ‘ Was it love at first sight ? |