Example sentences of "i [vb past] at [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . |
| 2 | PAUSE I thought I knew at last who you were , why you liked me at school , why you took the trouble to read those poems I 'd written . |
| 3 | I looked at that one again at Burtons today . |
| 4 | I mean she 's talking about it and I said well I thought at five they were probably a bit young . |
| 5 | I thought at first they must be students . |
| 6 | I thought at first they were racoons then I realised they were pandas . |
| 7 | I thought at first she had taken it well , and then she went crazy . |
| 8 | I thought at first she was ketch-rigged , but then decided she was more of a schooner . |
| 9 | I thought at first she was going to lend a hand . |
| 10 | I thought at first you was a kind bloke , I did n't think you was goin' to help put me in me grave . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I jettisoned the wood , climbed down the path and there , neatly stashed away in a narrow inlet between the rocks , was my castaway , complete with gash on temple , soaked through , ice-cold to the touch and so deeply unconscious I thought at first you were dead . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I thought at first it must have been Ivy Cook , ’ Zen went on . |
| 13 | I thought at first it was too high but not for our hero . |
| 14 | ‘ Once I cut the neckline wrong on three hundred dresses and I thought at first I 'd just keep quiet and fill the gap with lace . |