Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] first [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | they did n't know I mean like first newsletter we 've had in ages . |
2 | ‘ I encountered at first hand the sufferings of un-dernourished children and out-of-work ironstone miners and their impoverished families , ’ he writes . |
3 | 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 . |
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 | I think I did in first place , I must a forgot to change it . |
11 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |
12 | So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage . |
13 | Enough to make you gag on first crunch , surely . |
14 | 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 ’ . |
15 | Again , you will probably need more than you think at first reckoning , so there is no harm in thinking ambitiously from the start . |
16 | But what I 'm saying is the more you do of first ones the more you 'll do a second ones . |
17 | Oh , you wan na first bit of light to go along that |
18 | You know , sometimes we walk in first thing in the morning and we start straightaway and we forget to turn the er closed to open . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | What did we talk about first Paul ? |
21 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
22 | Though both had appeared in the press and are very slight pamphlets , they rank as first editions in book form . |
23 | Given the fact that much of the property in the western half of the country was sub-let to under-tenants at rack rents , it is doubtful whether regional differences were as pronounced as they appear at first sight . |
24 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
25 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
26 | The basis of lateral thinking is to be provocative with your ideas and to put them forward however bizarre or ridiculous they sound on first hearing . |
27 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
28 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
29 | And as they prepare for first division football he 's relishing another challenge , just as he 's looking forward to renewing acquaintances with certain Meath players today . |
30 | 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 . |