Example sentences of "first i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I thought him very plain , that is , for about three minutes : he is pale and thin , has a wide mouth , thick lips , and not very good teeth , longish loose-growing half-curling rough black hair . |
| 2 | Startled Bill , 76 , said : ‘ At first I thought what a damned cheek sending me an electric bill . |
| 3 | At first I thought they was bits of paper or summat that someone chucked in , but when the big boat went past , they all flew off . |
| 4 | As for Dana 's poems , at first I thought they were pretty feeble . |
| 5 | At first I thought they were police cars . ’ |
| 6 | At first I thought they were muggers , but then there were only two of them and it was the middle of the street . |
| 7 | At first I thought someone climbed the wall and put them there , but on the night I was chased by Gaveston 's dogs , I found that was an impossible feat . |
| 8 | The father was a wild-haired rough-looking young man , very cheerful , and with such a strong local accent that at first I thought he was speaking Gaelic . |
| 9 | At first I thought he was using it to wave at people , but then he bundled it up and threw it at a police car . |
| 10 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 11 | At first I thought he must be out cold . |
| 12 | whatever you know , cos at first I thought he was hot in his cot and |
| 13 | ‘ At first I thought I 'd hooked a tree because it felt so solid . |
| 14 | At first I thought I was out shopping with Marie , cos of all the people and cars and that , but then I remember I 'm lost . |
| 15 | At first I thought I was the only patient with cancer , for no one else ever spoke of it . |
| 16 | At first I thought I 'd been commissioned to rewrite The Archers theme . |
| 17 | At first I thought I would die of hunger , as I could not eat the Yahoos ' dirty meat or the Houys ' grass and corn . |
| 18 | At first I thought I could not have children because of my age . |
| 19 | At first I thought I might be having an out-of-body experience . |
| 20 | At first I thought I would have to wait . |
| 21 | At first I thought I was dead , but after that everything is a blurr . |
| 22 | At first I thought I had been pushed too wide . |
| 23 | When I had them first I thought I 'm never going to use them you know they 're so clumsy and they 're so big and now I rather enjoy them . |
| 24 | At first I thought it was the naval guns out in the Channel . |
| 25 | At first I thought it must be April Fools ' Day . |
| 26 | ‘ At first I thought it was a pigeon , but as the feathers went past the window I realised it was something else . ’ |
| 27 | His grey hair was cropped so short that at first I thought it was bald . |
| 28 | At first I thought it was just another question for translation . |
| 29 | ‘ At first I thought it was a ploy — a ruse designed to panic me into running to her , but then something told me it was not . |
| 30 | ‘ At first I thought it was rubbish and so was I. ’ The implication , of course , is that Mr Bowen now considers it not to be ‘ rubbish ’ . |