Example sentences of "[pron] see at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 6 | I had an image of GLF existing through meeting people and talking to them , but the only physical evidence I saw at that time was badges saying GLF . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Well you I had to load for h for him you see at first . |
| 9 | Nex anyway it 's quite near Portsmouth and we heard that the first Queen Elizabeth ship , they do n't say it 's the first but they call this one the Q E Two but there was a Q E One , you see at one time and so we took a coach from there to Southampton because we heard that she was in dock there and so we went and there were crowds of people and all in a queue waiting to go in . |
| 10 | He did n't have much money you see at that time . |
| 11 | Well the , all the others go on a Saturday but Heidi said she would be in it if she did n't have to go on Saturday , every Saturday , because she goes riding you see at nine o'clock nine till four so er Wendy said oh she 'll have her up on a Sunday afternoon the two or three principals . |
| 12 | Yes but you see at this time the girl took up her tea tray and , and when she took , she knocked on the door and when she opened the door the Manageress was lying on the floor |
| 13 | Or was what he wanted no one to see at all , and had failed to disguise . |
| 14 | As we saw at Old Trafford , there were quite a number who learned less than nothing and Smith was at the forefront of this group . |
| 15 | It is principally the ruins of the New Temple and Late Temple Periods that we see at Minoan sites today . |
| 16 | If we read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ through with Tate 's commentary at our elbow , we see at any given point what he means : he has a good ear , as we might expect from his own poems ( which are however metrical , as ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ is n't ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Also , he saw at one end , pads and claws . |