Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did wonder at first whether or not they realized what they were taking on because Baldersdale is another world compared to what they have been accustomed to — very different indeed . |
| 2 | She 'd decided at first that her brother deserved what was coming to him , but on reflection no one deserved to be thrown at Guido 's mercy . |
| 3 | Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year . |
| 4 | Let's go and see it , he had said , and she had recoiled at first . |
| 5 | Clare remembered how she had seemed at first to be constrained in all her movements and jerky , almost as if her stammer manifested itself through her body as well . |
| 6 | He was altogether too handsome , she had thought at first . |
| 7 | He quickly realised that , tactically , the situation at Verdun was not quite as desperate as it had seemed at first sight . |
| 8 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 9 | True , he had struggled at first to satisfy his beautiful young bride ; he had been too long a bachelor and too set in his ways . |
| 10 | Shelby did n't like Ferrari ; like plenty of others before and after , he had experienced at first hand Enzo Ferrari 's withering contempt for lesser mortals . |
| 11 | But what he had taken at first for raindrops on the wagon floor were actually pennies , halfpennies and farthings scattered everywhere . |
| 12 | Or so he had thought at first , hearing her voice , looking round the well-furnished rooms , the shelves full of old china figures , in her polished house . |
| 13 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 14 | He had thought at first that the man was lost and required instructions , but realised after the words had blown away that it was a quiet inquiry for cash . |
| 15 | Though he was a college Conservative of a patriotic and nationalist kind , he had shown at first no sign of the bitter and obsessive anti-Semitism that became the hallmark of his speaking and writing . |