Example sentences of "i [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 . |