Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 2 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 3 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 4 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 5 | There was the most tremendous row — Sykes refused to go with them at first , and the master was brought in to persuade him . |
| 6 | ‘ I felt like you at first , then I realised what it meant . |
| 7 | I thought they were joking with me at first . |
| 8 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 9 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 10 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 11 | Everything he had loved about me at first became embarrassing . |
| 12 | You come to us at First National Bank for a loan . |
| 13 | ‘ He will like you and he will need you for you speak English and he speaks no Italian and not even his brother will be able to speak to him at first . ’ |