Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I encountered at first hand the sufferings of un-dernourished children and out-of-work ironstone miners and their impoverished families , ’ he writes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I saw at first hand the problems Linfield had with travel arrangements and communications … give me Belfast every time . ’ |
| 9 | I think at first glance you ca n't really see . |
| 10 | Three at the Eucharist I preached at last month . |
| 11 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 12 | There are occasional academic studies which appear at first glance to support such interpretations , such as that of West , Roy and Nichols . |
| 13 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 14 | Partly this involves his audience in material which seems at first sight the familiar stuff of the music-hall chorus . |
| 15 | The art of task analysis always is to select what does matter , reject what does not matter and separate into categories or stages something which seems at first sight to have no internal boundaries . |
| 16 | But there was another element in the creation of its unusual nature , one which appears at first sight a source of significant weakness rather than strength . |
| 17 | Depreciation 's been falling now for two or three years as our capital expenditure of depreciable assets has been falling indeed if you look at last year 's net of the nine million pounds purchase of the freehold to fourteen million the year before was only sixteen million erm so as the as the depreciation as the capital expenditure falls the depreciation will also fall that 's one reason . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
| 20 | So Brick , who had at first dismay , |
| 21 | However , as stated above , nine out of the 11 in the action sample who said at second interview that they continued to prefer home care gave much more unequivocal answers ; stating not merely that they would not like the dementia sufferer to be in institutional care , or that they would feel guilty about him or her going into residential care ( as did the carers of Miss Wainwright and Mrs Nolan ) , but also that home was where they envisaged and wanted the sufferer to remain . |
| 22 | " How dreadful , " she said at last It s a wonder any of them survive in there . |
| 23 | Now what were we looking at last time ? |
| 24 | Everything looked at first glance the same . |
| 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 | Adjustment is not complete , it 's partial alright , so we 're going to say that supply adjusts in the following manner , right , according to the partial adjustment hypothesis alright , so changes in actual supply alright , will be delta of the difference between the desired level of output for T , right and the actual level of input T minus one alright , plus er alright , so that was just our partial adjustment model that we looked at last week , right , we 'll call that equation three okay right . |
| 27 | Erm and people will take on board different methods of being probed , some will respond to audio probes , some will re respond to some visual stimulation er conceptualize er ideas you know the ones we looked at last week like the old PEGGY symbols and erm the cheque book , PHI and life assurance , the ten percent rule and there is one another which we can look at , another mnemonic called er erm some of you may have come across it before , others may not and is hey so Mr Prospect if you had n't made an adequate retirement plan , what financial problems do you think you or family could have ? |
| 28 | Notice how Paul uses open string ideas ( bars 6–7 ) in a way that is very similar to the phrases that we looked at last month . |
| 29 | This shows the technique behind the ringing open string scale fingerings that we looked at last month , but applied to a short musical piece . |
| 30 | Which is a bit more of the , I think , the discussion we had at last Committee and at the Council . |