Example sentences of "thought at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abbott thought at first that Cambridge was bound to win . |
| 2 | A soft animal noise like gargling Dot thought at first must be Gloria 's breathing . |
| 3 | She thought at first that it was an apple pip in her mouth . |
| 4 | Dot thought at first she meant it was unkind for the man to be so constricted by the many instruments strapped to all parts of his body . |
| 5 | Jacob thought at first , perhaps , that he was wrestling with a brother intent on killing him and getting his revenge . |
| 6 | I thought at first that the sound , the terrorized shriek , was my last spurt , expressing itself . |
| 7 | Large red and white boats packed the harbour , and I thought at first that they must be private yachts . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought at first the food was a trap , but after you left the pink mixture I knew I could trust you . ’ |
| 9 | Stephanie , a mere stripling of 50 , thought at first she was n't old enough for her part , but two hours of make-up , a wig and plenty of padding soon solved that problem . |
| 10 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 11 | I thought at first they must be students . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She thought at first that his ordeal had been too much for him and that his mind was wandering . |
| 14 | She bent over the bed and thought at first that she was too late . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought at first , that 's not my kind of song , ’ said Rolf , more famous for Two Little Boys and Jake The Peg . |
| 16 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 17 | I thought at first you was a kind bloke , I did n't think you was goin' to help put me in me grave . ’ |
| 18 | She thought at first somebody had left a bundle of washing in the telephone box . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | She thought at first it was something she had eaten . |
| 21 | When the King saw me , he thought at first that I must be a mechanical toy . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | I thought at first she had taken it well , and then she went crazy . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | I thought at first she was ketch-rigged , but then decided she was more of a schooner . |
| 26 | When he saw the black-haired woman sitting beside the stream , he thought at first she was simply another ephemeral vision transmitted by the trees . |
| 27 | In appearance he was a tall and forbidding character , whom Cleo thought at first was rather too grim of face . |
| 28 | Cleo thought at first that the net would only drift right through the spirit , but it swiftly formed a sparkling ball round its prey , and Apanage lost no time in drawing the opening of the silk tightly together . |
| 29 | When he went through the back door he discovered the printers had gone home and thought at first no one was there . |
| 30 | As I said , I thought at first that the no boundary condition did indeed imply that disorder would decrease in the contracting phase . |