Sentence examples for which I initially from inspiring English sources

*Grue (which I initially reported, and heard, as gruel) is a Scottish word meaning shiver, evidently!

"A Mind Emerges Joyfully After Years Lost in a Cloud" (Feb. 10): Like the author of the article, Beverly Jablons, I too am thankfully wearing a shunt, which I initially thought was only for babies and young children.

It's not that I don't believe she'll do it, since if there's one thing this party has proved beyond doubt, it's its determination to enact ideas about which I initially assumed it was joking.

So to be the change I wanted to see in the world, it unfortunately meant I was going to have to give up cash, which I initially decided to do for a year.

Junk food tradition is embraced, in the form of fish and chips, a burger, a banana split, and even 'hot dog, popcorn and ice-cream soda' which I initially took to be some clever gastronomic jeu d'esprit, but which is actually just what it says it is.

While the video does not mention infrastructure, and as far as I can tell they did not formally back the new London cycle superhighways, their press release does have this quote from Simon Warsop, which I initially missed: Aviva believes an improved transport infrastructure would create safer streets which would reduce the risk of an accident for all road users.

The worst one, which I'd initially mistaken for a beauty mark, had gotten smaller, but he still might need his upper lip removed.

There is avocado tucked in there, too, of which I was initially dubious (that Californian interloper!), but it lends a necessary heft.

This is not the fault of Buford's judging panel (which I was initially invited to join): we cannot expect them to bring us fat in a lean age.

As is always the case in the season finale we checked in on a lot of storylines and yet none of those moments seemed wasted – even the scenes with Dany, which I was initially wary of, packed a slowly devastating punch, first when she saw the results of Drogon's hunger and secondly when she locked her "children" away, sorrow written across her face.

The systems-development department to which I applied initially was not interested in hiring me; they thought I would be more suitable for a business-development position.