Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may need to watch him at first , so that you can clean and dress any grazes or cuts immediately . |
| 2 | Professor Uitsmijter has suggested what at first seems a crazy solution to my translation problems : I place my tape-recorder next to the phone , he records the laibon 's words in Nairobi and he faxes back the translation . |
| 3 | I tried to tell them at first , but now I just smile and say nuffin' , like Brer Rabbit . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 5 | I hated seeing myself at first — we all did . |
| 6 | I did n't want to believe it at first , ’ she told him shakily , ‘ but I can now . |
| 7 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 8 | I should have done it at first ; I could have paid it then . |
| 9 | You may have to help him at first , but as he progresses , he can tackle more complicated puzzles . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
| 12 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 13 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 14 | Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt . |
| 15 | Girfriend Zoe had told him at first that she had seen punches being exchanged betweeen the two , then that she had not , but he said she was confussed and highly distressed . |
| 16 | The melancholy that had struck me at first was very much a part of his character . |
| 17 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I thought he looked so lost and unhappy that I just wanted to comfort him at first , and Chris says he just thought I was kind . |