Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondment is an opportunity for them to learn at first hand about the world of work to which their students are aspiring . |
| 2 | I believe some of them visited at first , but it gradually dwindled — even Sonia and Paul Mason , whom she was very friendly with , stopped visiting . |
| 3 | PERSONAL VIEW FM : the long and short of it exposed at last |
| 4 | P. To start with it was the ‘ glamorous lifestyle ’ , cruising around in T-shirt and shorts , like everyone does at first . |
| 5 | One way of approaching the non-cultural ( or non-social ) aspects of psychological theory is to start with what seems at first sight like a simple series of internal inconsistencies in Freud 's work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was convincing , too , in getting maximum mileage out of the ingenious variations on what seems at first a not very promising theme . |
| 8 | All we are left with in this critic 's eyes is the drama of one simple and honourable man created by what seemed at first a ‘ carefully studied impersonation ’ but what became a very moving performance by Muni . |
| 9 | These conclusions are confirmed by what happened at Eighth Army HQ over the following two days , as we shall come to shortly . |