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The phrase 'saw first hand' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you are discussing something that you personally witnessed. For example, "I saw first hand how excited the children were when they opened their presents."
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And Harrison saw, first hand, how eager students were for the work.
I saw first hand out there what a simple bicycle can do for people.
Because the Eagles that the Giants saw first hand weren't competitive.
He saw first hand the horror of fascism roll across Europe and recognised it, too, in the totalitarian state.
The royal couple saw first hand the situation that faces the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the war-torn country as the conflict enters its third year.
He attended celebrations to mark 1,000 days to go until the 2016 Paralympics and saw first hand how lives were being impacted.
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"They saw first-hand how inappropriate some of the resources that were donated were".
She is a communications studies major and wants to go into broadcast journalism, something she saw first-hand while being interviewed about "Just Yell Fire".
We baby boomers are the group who lived through the Cold War and saw first-hand what hard-left policies were like in the Communist bloc.
"And then my father-in-law was homebound, and I saw first-hand there were no at-home dental services available".
Coulter was in a 10-year, emotionally-abusive relationship and saw first-hand the lack of support for men – which compounded his sense of isolation.
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