Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at first [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners . |
| 6 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 8 | I think at first glance you ca n't really see . |
| 9 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 10 | There are occasional academic studies which appear at first glance to support such interpretations , such as that of West , Roy and Nichols . |
| 11 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 12 | Partly this involves his audience in material which seems at first sight the familiar stuff of the music-hall chorus . |
| 13 | The art of task analysis always is to select what does matter , reject what does not matter and separate into categories or stages something which seems at first sight to have no internal boundaries . |
| 14 | But there was another element in the creation of its unusual nature , one which appears at first sight a source of significant weakness rather than strength . |
| 15 | She saw at first hand the imperialist arrogance of the British in her mother country , aptly illustrated by the signs in the parks which baldly stated ‘ no dogs or Chinese allowed ’ . |
| 16 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
| 17 | So Brick , who had at first dismay , |
| 18 | Everything looked at first glance the same . |
| 19 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 20 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 21 | Given the fact that much of the property in the western half of the country was sub-let to under-tenants at rack rents , it is doubtful whether regional differences were as pronounced as they appear at first sight . |
| 22 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 23 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 24 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 25 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 26 | Some of them even have to be parents when they get home where they see at first hand the pressures to supply children with fashionable merchandise . |
| 27 | Secondment is an opportunity for them to learn at first hand about the world of work to which their students are aspiring . |
| 28 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 29 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 30 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |