Example sentences of "i think at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought at first that the sound , the terrorized shriek , was my last spurt , expressing itself . |
| 2 | Large red and white boats packed the harbour , and I thought at first that they must be private yachts . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought at first the food was a trap , but after you left the pink mixture I knew I could trust you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I think you 're a very brave girl , ’ he said ‘ — braver even than I thought at first . |
| 5 | I thought at first they must be students . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought at first , that 's not my kind of song , ’ said Rolf , more famous for Two Little Boys and Jake The Peg . |
| 8 | I thought at first you was a kind bloke , I did n't think you was goin' to help put me in me grave . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I thought at first she had taken it well , and then she went crazy . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | I thought at first she was ketch-rigged , but then decided she was more of a schooner . |
| 14 | As I said , I thought at first that the no boundary condition did indeed imply that disorder would decrease in the contracting phase . |
| 15 | I thought at first that Lady Eleanor had fainted . |
| 16 | I thought at first she was going to lend a hand . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought at first it must have been Ivy Cook , ’ Zen went on . |
| 18 | And I thought at first that it was good , because my mistress had lost her interest in life and I thought this might renew it . ’ |
| 19 | I thought at first it was too high but not for our hero . |
| 20 | ‘ I jettisoned the wood , climbed down the path and there , neatly stashed away in a narrow inlet between the rocks , was my castaway , complete with gash on temple , soaked through , ice-cold to the touch and so deeply unconscious I thought at first you were dead . ’ |
| 21 | I thought at first they were racoons then I realised they were pandas . |
| 22 | Well , I think at first they were both afraid to become music specialists , but she knows so much now — good contemporary pop music , not just my music — that she wants to be involved with it and she refuses to be professionally involved unless she has expert knowledge . |
| 23 | I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage . |
| 24 | I think at first she blamed Michael , the first few days . |
| 25 | But she could n't ever see me , though I think at first she knew I was around , so now I mostly stay where I am and amuse myself with some of the other kids who are here too . |
| 26 | I think it was a bit strange , I think at first was n't it ? |
| 27 | I think at first glance you ca n't really see . |
| 28 | She did n't say and I , I never thought to ask her , no she did n't say so we 're just , that 's why really as I say I do n't , I think at first she was quite happy for us to go in and maybe take stuff in , but I do n't think she was happy about us doing structural things on it |