Example sentences of "[vb past] at first [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I encountered at first hand the sufferings of un-dernourished children and out-of-work ironstone miners and their impoverished families , ’ he writes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But when Felicity arrived , three days later , it seemed at first glance as if she had lost every atom of her old charm . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 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 | Truman later record that at Potsdam he " saw at first hand what we and the West had to face in the future " . |
| 17 | I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners . |
| 18 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 20 | VISITORS to Middlesbrough Council 's Southlands Leisure Centre saw at first hand that the world of fun and sport was literally on their doorstep . |
| 21 | Margaret of Carlisle , 47 , was widowed two years ago and knew at first hand the financial problems that can arise from the sudden death of a loved one and the trauma of finding that her partner was inadequately insured . |
| 22 | Dickens knew at first hand from his own childhood what it was to live the life of the poor . |
| 23 | Short and plump , with receding hair and a peeved expression , Pietro looked at first sight like an English tourist who had come to complain about his belongings being stolen from his hotel room , full of righteous indignation about Italy being a den of thieves and demanding to know when the authorities proposed to do something about it . |
| 24 | The left side of his face , in the region of the jaw articulation , looked at first sight as though it had been smashed by a blow , but Wycliffe recognised it as the wound of exit of a bullet which had probably ricochetted inside the skull . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the forests of the Mesozoic there were large numbers of trees and shrubby plants that looked at first glance like palm trees , with leafless stems crowned with bouquets of stiff , large leaves , deeply divided into long , unbranched leaflets . |
| 27 | Everything looked at first glance the same . |
| 28 | He learned at first hand the economic geography of the regnum francorum . |
| 29 | The proposed repeal of the Population Registration Act , the legislation under which South African citizens were classified into four racial groups , appeared at first sight to throw into doubt the legitimacy of Parliament as at present constituted . |
| 30 | The Mendeleev Table appeared at first sight to conclude the study of the atomic theory by setting a limit to the existence of fundamentally different kinds of matter . |