Example sentences of "thought [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or if it can — there is a case for that too — it might as well be thought about first . |
| 2 | Engineers , it was often said , only carried out ideas that other people had thought of first . |
| 3 | Unlike these cities , Dublin is thought of first and foremost for its literary heritage , rather than for its art . |
| 4 | If your household is likely to expand in any way it might be cheaper in the long run to buy a larger model than the more modest affair you had thought of first . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They have generally been found by the chance of fieldwork and aerial reconnaissance and many are awaiting discovery ; when they are studied in detail they are often found to be much larger than thought at first , covering areas , in some cases , of over 100 acres . |
| 7 | He was altogether too handsome , she had thought at first . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thomas had thought at first that it was a shadow . |