Example sentences of "i [vb past] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I encountered at first hand the sufferings of un-dernourished children and out-of-work ironstone miners and their impoverished families , ’ he writes . |
| 2 | I messed at first with Harry Phillimore , who was to become a lifelong friend . |
| 3 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 4 | Just to say that the trip worked out slightly cheaper than I anticipated at first and have pleasure in returning a little bit from your cheque . |
| 5 | When I started at first erm |
| 6 | But despite how I felt at first about myself when I lost my leg , I have n't really had that many problems with boyfriends . |
| 7 | When I first met John Hurt in 1977 , when he was in Devon filming The Shout , I saw at first hand how much he drank . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 12 | One of the areas I looked at first was the so-called ancillary services — that is cleaning , catering and laundry . |
| 13 | Pete , of Bruton , Somerset , said yesterday : ‘ I laughed at first because I did not believe it . |
| 14 | I thought at first that the sound , the terrorized shriek , was my last spurt , expressing itself . |
| 15 | Large red and white boats packed the harbour , and I thought at first that they must be private yachts . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought at first the food was a trap , but after you left the pink mixture I knew I could trust you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 18 | I thought at first they must be students . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought at first , that 's not my kind of song , ’ said Rolf , more famous for Two Little Boys and Jake The Peg . |
| 21 | I thought at first you was a kind bloke , I did n't think you was goin' to help put me in me grave . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | I thought at first she had taken it well , and then she went crazy . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | I thought at first she was ketch-rigged , but then decided she was more of a schooner . |
| 27 | As I said , I thought at first that the no boundary condition did indeed imply that disorder would decrease in the contracting phase . |
| 28 | I thought at first that Lady Eleanor had fainted . |
| 29 | I thought at first she was going to lend a hand . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought at first it must have been Ivy Cook , ’ Zen went on . |