Example sentences of "i at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 2 | The reality surprised me at first , and then like everyone else , I took it for granted . |
| 3 | He did n't like me at first . |
| 4 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 5 | I thought they were joking with me at first . |
| 6 | He gives me £54 a month and I have to pay all the bills out of that It used to bother me at first , it does n't now . |
| 7 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 8 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
| 9 | They look like rust — it fooled me at first . |
| 10 | ‘ I was n't even sure he liked me at first . ’ |
| 11 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 12 | Perhaps they were afraid of me at first . |
| 13 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 14 | Everything he had loved about me at first became embarrassing . |
| 15 | The melancholy that had struck me at first was very much a part of his character . |
| 16 | It suited me at first to have you believe there was someone in my life . |
| 17 | ‘ It was her beauty which attracted me at first , ’ said Mr Jefferson , who was a produce buyer for NAFFI for more than 37 years . |
| 18 | Last night we had a phone call , oh it frightened me at first actually , I answered the phone |