First hand
first hand (adjective) - gaining experience or information directly by yourself, not through other people or books
see first hand
see at first hand
an opportunity to see at first hand
able to see at first hand why
see at first hand the pressures of Y
see the horrors of war firsthand
experience first hand
first hand experience
as many of you will know, from first hand experience,...
first hand information
know something, immediately, directly and at first hand
study the artist's work at first hand
supervise at first hand
assess the immediate needs at first hand
didn't learn first hand myself I learned second hand from him
describing at first hand
study at first hand
should be read at first hand
knew from first hand experience
finding out at first hand
grapple with the problem at first hand
a first hand account of Y
a first hand look at X
show at first the consequences should Y happen
understanding Z at first hand
observe at first hand the way things are run
a privilege to have seen such things at first hand
through Y the majority of people experience Z at first hand
experiencing it all first hand
Example sentences:
* "This exhibition is an opportunity for the industry to see technology first hand."
* "When students serve internships at companies they observe the world of work at first hand."
* "I offered to send a technical mission to Moscow to assess the immediate needs at first hand."
* "As many of you will know, from first hand experience, there are few things which have a greater impact on morale and productivity, than the working environment and associated facilities."
* "Usually they have few opportunities to check that their instructions are being pursued and almost none to supervise their execution at first hand."
* The young man was introduced to the perfumer's skills over the six months he spent at the company with first hand experience of the magical ingredients of perfume.
* "Imagine, senior management finally getting off its collective backside and finding out, at first hand, what the front line has to grapple with."
* "This was an intriguing first hand account of how an engine works, its maintenance, and driving."
* "By seeing their work at first hand, they're hoping he'll be convinced of the need for more staff."
* "A first hand look inside one of Britain's newest jails."
* "We have first hand experience."
* He has developed a package which includes a plant tour so people can see first hand all the measures to control pollution and minimise waste."
* "For anyone who is considering joining the police becoming a summer volunteer is an ideal way of getting first hand experience of the job."
* "Some aid workers who've seen the horrors of Bosnia at first hand feel the airlift is wrong."
* "The exercise was also aimed at big business, experts from some of Britain's largest chemical companies were invited, to show them first hand the consequences should chemical cargoes be released in such an accident."
* "But as time went on he realised he could not convey how the style had evolved without understanding the techniques at first hand."
* "As Attorney-General, he has visited the conflict area monthly and has experienced the situation there at first hand."
* "Well my son, Andrew, was involved with some of these discussions, so what I didn't learn first hand myself I learned second hand from him."
* "We will get first hand information and then we can take our problems to them."
* "She saw the camps at first hand and has been telling us that refugees are putting up with appalling circumstances."
* "Over the years I have observed the changes at first hand, with each new undergraduate intake, and have had to alter my terminology to suit."
* "I'm very confident that when the Commission learns at first hand that it is not technically possible, they will see the overwhelming good sense of the British government and we will hear no more of the matter."
* "It has never, of course, been my privilege to have seen such things at first hand."
* "She insisted that he should visit the office so that he could observe at first hand how things were run."
* "Her article represents an invaluable first hand account of the crucial years in the development of the country."
* "Three years of being a member of the NGO had not prepared her for seeing human rights abuses first hand."
* "Either one knows something, immediately, directly and at first hand, or one does not know anything at all."
* "These trips are of vital importance as it is through them that the majority of people experience the countryside at first hand, whether for formal or informal recreation."
* "One Englishman at least was experiencing it all first hand."
* "Sharon told us that the company's war history was fascinating and that many of our retired employees will remember it first hand."
* "All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy, but first the calm, unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here, with the devastated relatives, Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant."
* "And as they walked around the 230 acre farm, all of it in the extended Less Favoured Areas, they were able to see at first hand why Hume Stewart-Moore and his son Michael were so successful."
* "I encountered at first hand the sufferings of undernourished children and out-of-work ironstone miners and their impoverished families."
* "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."
* "Now I could plan excursions to Rome, Florence, Venice and yes, Milan, and study the artist's work at first hand."
* "It seems to me that they are describing at first hand a world made up of physical materials similar to those which we can see and touch, with an invisible (to most of us) non-material life force much like the ether superimposed on it and within it."
* "The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations --; much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch, Spitalfields, at Hinton St George, Somerset, and Withyham, Sussex --; where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day."
* "It will be found in Volume I of Hume's Treatise which should be read at first hand, as we are not trying to do it any justice here."
* "During the last few years, we have begun to learn something of these mothers' true feelings from the women who suffered the regime at first hand: what stands out in such accounts is the emotion which is still generated in the mother by her own memories."
* "Indeed, Clara knew from first hand experience the moral truth of the story told in The Golden Windows about the house with the golden windows, for she had once admired from a friend's house the whole dazzling, distant, smoky lay-out of her own hillside."
