Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] at first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Released from prison , Rudd travelled around the country , undertaking surveys and checking information at first hand . |
| 2 | Today he had seen violence at first hand . |
| 3 | The thought of ‘ introducing ’ timber wolves to the island and its inhabitants may have seemed rash at first , but then I introduced a boy with ‘ hate ’ tattooed on his knuckles to my parents once . |
| 4 | What may seem resistance at first may instead be uncertainty and possibly real anxiety . |
| 5 | Local residents were given an opportunity to present evidence at first hand when the Committee sat in Cardiff . |
| 6 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |
| 7 | Woman-centred feminism 's predominantly cultural form in psychology , allied to the discipline 's traditional lack of interest in sexuality , allowed woman-centred psychology to ignore homosexuality at first ; Miller ( 1976 ) equated sexuality with heterosexuality . |
| 8 | When I left school at first I was er in meat wholesale in Glasgow right . |
| 9 | The trem performs all the current tricks , although it did suffer a little from tuning instability at first . |
| 10 | Other demographic factors affecting health of mother and offspring include age at first marriage ( or union ) , at first and subsequent births ( maternal age , paternal age ) , birth order , party , family size , birth and pregnancy intervals . |