Example sentences of "[pers pn] first thought " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is actually patch group 1 , bank 1 — not eleven , as I first thought . |
| 2 | ‘ I first thought they made a mistake with the test but later I thought it was more anti-American . ’ |
| 3 | When I first thought about fancying men , it was about kissing and cuddling . |
| 4 | The slenderest patients , those whose faces are nothing more than a triangle of bone around the eyes , they 're Musselmänner : not , as I first thought , as an ironical glance at musclemen . |
| 5 | I first thought , Irish . |
| 6 | Then Carol reappeared with what I first thought was cocaine down most of her right side . |
| 7 | Finally , stand back and have another look at the fish … is it really as good as you first thought , or have you become less impressed with it , the more you have been close to it ? |
| 8 | But might not the woman be a mere pickpocket and the man her accomplice , as you first thought ? ’ |
| 9 | Father , she first thought as the figure of a grey-haired man resolved itself . |
| 10 | The river we had crossed was to our left and was not , as we first thought , melt water from the spout ; that formed a river to our right . |
| 11 | Feature analysis is an attractively simple way of explaining visual perception but , it turns out , ‘ features ’ are much more complex than we first thought . |
| 12 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 13 | Koppes comments on the launch of the Russian Sputnik : ‘ JPL personnel could remember years later where they were when they heard the news , what they first thought , and what they did . ’ |
| 14 | One had overturned and they stared in amazement as a swarthy-featured European lashed out with a thick bamboo cane at what they first thought was a small animal collapsed between the shafts . |
| 15 | The Williamses fell in love with the outside of the house at first sight and Pauline admits the condition inside was far worse than they first thought . |
| 16 | ‘ And several house building companies who have routinely offered temporary occupancy to farmers using three to four year Licences may find it is not as easy to establish their own occupancy as they first thought . ’ |
| 17 | They had negotiated the roundabout for Lutterworth and the A427 to Coventry and were proceeding north on the A5 when Mr Woodward 's attention was suddenly drawn to what he first thought were three buses stood nose to tail . |
| 18 | Molby , 29 , suffered the damage on the opening day of pre-season training last month but the injury has proved more serious than he first thought . |
| 19 | Michael 's step-father said he first thought there had been an earthquake . |