Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Thus I saw at first hand the developing excitement within the scientific community on two continents as thousands of us changed research programmes literally overnight and attempted to replicate the phenomenon . |
| 32 | I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners . |
| 33 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 35 | One of the areas I looked at first was the so-called ancillary services — that is cleaning , catering and laundry . |
| 36 | George , whom I looked for first , was in his office eating a fat ragged beef sandwich and drinking diet Coke . |
| 37 | Pete , of Bruton , Somerset , said yesterday : ‘ I laughed at first because I did not believe it . |
| 38 | I thought at first that the sound , the terrorized shriek , was my last spurt , expressing itself . |
| 39 | Large red and white boats packed the harbour , and I thought at first that they must be private yachts . |
| 40 | ‘ I thought at first the food was a trap , but after you left the pink mixture I knew I could trust you . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 42 | I thought at first they must be students . |
| 43 | I thought at first that he was merely taking an open-air path to his own bedroom , but he went straight past the open door at the end of his sleeping car , and straight on past the next car also . |
| 44 | ‘ I thought at first , that 's not my kind of song , ’ said Rolf , more famous for Two Little Boys and Jake The Peg . |
| 45 | I thought at first you was a kind bloke , I did n't think you was goin' to help put me in me grave . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ When I was in Egypt I thought at first that the sun and the desert , the empty sky and the empty sand — that there was nowhere more grand . |
| 47 | ‘ I thought at first , what was the mother like since there 's so little of the Flowers in any of them , since they are so good and clean and wipe their noses always on their handkerchiefs and never on their sleeves7 But the veneer is rubbing off already . ’ |
| 48 | I thought at first she had taken it well , and then she went crazy . |
| 49 | ‘ 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 . |
| 50 | I thought at first she was ketch-rigged , but then decided she was more of a schooner . |
| 51 | As I said , I thought at first that the no boundary condition did indeed imply that disorder would decrease in the contracting phase . |
| 52 | I thought at first that Lady Eleanor had fainted . |
| 53 | I thought at first she was going to lend a hand . |
| 54 | ‘ I thought at first it must have been Ivy Cook , ’ Zen went on . |
| 55 | And I thought at first that it was good , because my mistress had lost her interest in life and I thought this might renew it . ’ |
| 56 | I thought at first it was too high but not for our hero . |
| 57 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 58 | I thought at first they were racoons then I realised they were pandas . |
| 59 | And I went to last summer we took a er I took a sha er not a sha erm tt static caravan in , at er Prestatyn an and erm |
| 60 | They used , they used to be about ten quid and you , we all thought it was really good value and went to all of them but erm they 've gone up to like eighteen pounds well that was the last one I went to last year so some of them are twenty two and I paid thirty for one of them but that was at the erm Savoy Hotel that little bluebird one , that 's a real debs ' ball . |