Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day of the launch of At First Sight at London Colney , on September 20 , among many moving moments as crews meet up and shared their memories , there was a most poignant presentation . |
| 2 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 3 | Certainly not to the same degree of hurt , but a taste of what rejection was like at first hand . |
| 4 | At the end of the first month of the 1916–17 season City reached new goal-scoring heights , showing a ‘ superiority over the opposition to an extent seldom met with in first class football ’ ( Yorkshire Evening News ) . |
| 5 | Since statistics rarely mean what they appear to at first glance , we should , however , look at these figures with caution . |
| 6 | At at first glance I would probably decide I 'd I 'd actually enjoy the golf club one but I 'm sure it does n't pay as much money . |
| 7 | For Case 2a , we could employ some search of the lexicon on our partial information , such as by first letter of the word , approximate word length and word shape . |