Example sentences of "[pos pn] first thought " in BNC.
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1 | My first thought on picking up this very substantial volume , was how on earth can information on rock gear fill so much space . |
2 | My first thought , I 'm afraid to say , was ‘ What an ugly dog ! ’ |
3 | ‘ My first thought was , ‘ Oh my God , Carly 's been eating apples and drinking their juice almost all her life — ten years . |
4 | This , then , was my first thought : I was not dead and I was glad I was not dead . |
5 | None of his designs that we now possess was built , and my first thought was of regret that this should be so , but on reflection I knew that it was right . |
6 | My first thought was , ‘ That person up there is more successful than me . |
7 | WAKING UP one Sunday morning , my first thought was of more sleep and consequently not bothering to go to the deanery day that had been organised in our area . |
8 | My first thought was that this was Dad lying at the foot of the stairs having killed himself . |
9 | ‘ My first thought was , ‘ who is going to look after the children if I 'm not around ’ , ’ says the mother of three from Harlow . |
10 | My first thought when I heard I 'd got the part was : ‘ Bang goes my knighthood ! ’ ’ |
11 | Last night , film director Michael Winner said : ‘ When I heard he was ill my first thought was of AIDS because he was an active bisexual . |
12 | Rita : You know , the old story , my first thoughts when I had her , well one of my first thoughts , was Oh , I 've got one of them kids that have silly haircuts , silly anoraks , spend all day on buses or all day in a home , weaving baskets , and that was my first thought … |
13 | My first thought was to rush to the nearest d-i-y superstore to buy new ones . |
14 | I pretended to be glad to see him , though my first thought was that Gill and I would n't be alone on the train back to Victoria . |
15 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
16 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |
17 | My first thought was that he meant his feeling for me . |
18 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
19 | My first thought was that they must have come to ask my father for his help in interpreting . |
20 | ‘ My first thought ? |
21 | ‘ That was my first thought . |
22 | My first thought was for Father . |
23 | My first thought was that the superintendent had decided to run the InterCity train with one power car . |
24 | My first thought was that I was 320 duck-jumps behind and if I was ever going to make the state of shai-hai I would probably have to spend a whole weekend duck-jumping . |
25 | ‘ That was my first thought . |
26 | ‘ My first thought was ‘ Oh no , what have I done now ? ’ |
27 | I think my first thought was a black armband to wear on my uniform I was so proudly wearing at the time of the news . |
28 | My first thought was that had Richard Hannay materialised at that moment , I would have issued him with a help form . |
29 | But my first thought is for the little girls |
30 | So , I mean to me , I do n't know whether I 'm right , but that my first thought is that they must be buying it very |