Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] at [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though impulsive in some ways , she was an ordinary , practical girl who had never really believed in grand passion or love at first sight . |
| 2 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 3 | Here is a man who strides about purposefully , hits the ball a long long way , and looks at first sight like a competitor capable of a certain bumptiousness . |
| 4 | ABOVE Simon Stern The Pan Book of Famous Quotations , cover illustration , commissioned by Jim Stanton , and exhibited at last year 's AOI Images show . |
| 5 | PRIZE PAIR : Nigel with the borrowed gown and Brix at last year 's ceremony |
| 6 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 7 | The first race was off at two fifteen but on race day Cheltenham is up and running at first light . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Crows acrobated above a dead elm tree , ‘ The crow will tumble up and down/ at first sign of spring/ and in old trees around the town/brush winter from its wing . ’ |
| 11 | Both are candidates for the Olympic team and Bridge , though the youngest man in the race , rowed in last year 's crew and competed at last year 's world championships in a coxed pair steered by Probert . |
| 12 | I thank my hon. Friend for the time and trouble that he took last week to visit my constituency and see at first hand the problems caused by and resulting from British Rail . |
| 13 | We should build up the Western European Union as the defence pillar of the European union , but the treaty embodies the view set out in the Anglo-Italian proposal two months ago , and endorsed at last month 's summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that whatever we do at European level must be compatible with NATO . |
| 14 | In 1985 , they " woke up " and sued for possession but failed at first instance . |
| 15 | Life was sex , infidelity. divorces , Infatuation , yes , but love at first sight , smell , touch ? |