Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Doctor turned to her at last . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | She might even , he suggested , as they went to the stairs , benefit from a quiet winter with her sister to help and think what joy lay ahead with Oreste brought to her at last . |