Sentence examples for at first takes from inspiring English sources

Deborah Lynn Whitfieldd) at first takes her tight-jawed husband for an interloper.

"Looks ungainly at first, takes a while to get there, and then finishes with a flash of brilliance".

The student's mother — a widowed Brazilian dance teacher who at first takes young Coetzee for a pedophile — is no more generous.

Anna, we learn, wears the boots of her older brother who has "gone over," a phrase that Lib at first takes to mean emigration to the United States but which the reader will suspect indicates a more final destination.

Ms. Moore at first takes a naturalistic approach that suggests the slasher-movie setting will mostly be used as a pretext for exploring the conflict between Frances, a staunch feminist who believes men have caused all her problems, and her college-age daughter, Sheena, who has defiantly taken the lead victim role in a crazed-killer movie.

Keret's son Lev is born during a terrorist attack, which at first takes the shine off proceedings: "Probably even the baby feels this whole getting-born thing isn't that urgent any more," he thinks, glum on his bench outside the maternity ward.

Mussolini, at first taken aback by his loss of public favour, decided to take the offensive.

The new style of demonstrations at first took the DPP by surprise.

Replay Networks, now called ReplayTV, at first took the position that the networks' interests were irrelevant.

She went alone at first, taking time to find translators who could tolerate the conditions.

He saw the lesion — a white dot — which he at first took to be a canker sore.