Example sentences of "i [vb past] at [num ord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers . |
| 2 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 3 | Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed . |
| 4 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 5 | I attempted at first to put this into Ryedale district . |
| 6 | ‘ On that particular day , we arrived there about ten o'clock , and I refused at first to go any farther ; the charm of those gardens and their flowers was so great that I wanted never to leave them . |