Example sentences of "[vb past] at [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 2 | No we 're going to erm Horsham for the Christmas party , the works Christmas party and erm , the hotel where Rob stopped at last time when he was down in Horsham , that 's where they 're doing Christmas party this year , so we obviously we staying in a double room |
| 3 | These qualities were already present to a degree in certain early works , such as the Forfar town hall and the contemporary Kirriemuir church , while at Melville the somewhat perfunctory detail in the castellated style is accompanied by other features reminiscent of the work of Sir John Soane [ q.v. ] ; but his style developed rapidly after his Parisian visit of 1787 , when he doubtless encountered at first hand the revolutionary architecture of E.-L . |
| 4 | ‘ I encountered at first hand the sufferings of un-dernourished children and out-of-work ironstone miners and their impoverished families , ’ he writes . |
| 5 | Danes are in effect voting on a deal negotiated at last December 's EC summit in Edinburgh , which gave them opt-outs on sensitive issues such as a common currency , joint security , police controls and citizenship rules . |
| 6 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 7 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
| 8 | But when Felicity arrived , three days later , it seemed at first glance as if she had lost every atom of her old charm . |
| 9 | It seemed at first glance that Louise was wearing a turban ; she had saved her day 's ration of flour and had made a poultice of it for a boil which had erupted on her temple ; her other boils seemed to be growing slightly better . |
| 10 | For that brief moment she could see the room beyond him and there , jutting out from what seemed at first glance to be a pillow beneath the blanket , the naked foot of a youth . |
| 11 | These conclusions are confirmed by what happened at Eighth Army HQ over the following two days , as we shall come to shortly . |
| 12 | In addition to this major report on the Christian family , which is the Board 's contribution to the twin track work with the panel on doctrine , the Board also offers an interim report on young people in the media , and its final report presaged at last year 's general assembly on ritual abuse . |
| 13 | Andy Caddick ( ‘ He 'll get a few 0 for 70s , that will be the real test of temperament , ’ Cottam had said ) maybe has n't sustained the outstanding promise he showed at 2nd XI level last summer . |
| 14 | The Ministers arrived at first light to find the palace dark and empty , the huge rooms barely lit by a few lamps placed here and there showing the furniture covered in drapes . |
| 15 | On 12 May Macmillan arrived at Eighth Army headquarters at Treviso with his assistant Philip Broad at about 10.30 am . |
| 16 | When Nanny returned at last Artemis asked her what father had meant by saying her mother had gone . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I could partly understand Sally 's comments because I heard at second hand from Jack Mason about the bickering that went on between manufacturers and the players ' agents about contracts . |
| 19 | It had gone now , its place taken by a summer suit Claudia loved at first sight , but she was n't here to buy clothes — she must find Dana . |
| 20 | Sparks flew at last weekend 's Berkeley conference when Boaz turned up unexpectedly . |
| 21 | According to French sources , the problems with the Longines Classic started at last year 's event when , though the sponsors paid out the prize money , it did not reach the players . |
| 22 | Towards the and of his stint , he filled a gap in the team for the Italian GP at Monza — and saw at first hand one of BRM 's famous fiascos . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Truman later record that at Potsdam he " saw at first hand what we and the West had to face in the future " . |
| 27 | I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 30 | VISITORS to Middlesbrough Council 's Southlands Leisure Centre saw at first hand that the world of fun and sport was literally on their doorstep . |