Example sentences of "[pron] saw the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One survivor says : ‘ When I saw the first bomb fall , I knew that it was going to be a bad day for America ’ . |
| 2 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 3 | Indeed , as Maxine Berg has well explained , a feature of those same closing decades which saw the first cotton mills was the spread of such manufactures . |
| 4 | She saw the first researchers , long-dead now but their essence still lived , frozen in the flow of electrons . |
| 5 | That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree . |
| 6 | Oh , you saw the first |
| 7 | JTR had chickened out and was travelling south - ‘ we saw the first snows fall before we left … ’ — to write up his chapter retrospectively on previous rambles in Skye , for some obscure reason . |
| 8 | I know people imagined I was much older than I was when they saw the first film because some newspapers referred to me as ‘ the Old Lady of the Dales ’ . |
| 9 | Both David Whitaker and Verity Lambert had been captivated by Terry Nation 's Dalek story right from the moment they saw the first ‘ treatment ’ ( story idea ) . |
| 10 | It saw the first public flotation of a building society , the first moves towards acquisition of a major bank , Girobank , by another society , some further widening of building society powers , a tendency for more societies to become ‘ tied agents ’ of insurance companies and further excursions by societies into the wider field of financial services . |
| 11 | When asked what use it was , Franklin gave the same reply as when he saw the first balloon ascent in 1783 … ’ |
| 12 | As he saw the first men fall in the ambush , Lachlan 's shipmaster yelled for his men to fall back . |
| 13 | Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode . |
| 14 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
| 15 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |
| 16 | At last he saw the first of the dawn , like light faintly perceived round a corner at the far end of an unknown burrow ; and in the same moment a yellow-hammer sang . |
| 17 | The Merkut clan was camped along the curve of a small lake , and when he saw the first yurts Burun kicked his st'lyan into a gallop , his spirit soaring with anticipation . |
| 18 | He saw the first group of storm-troopers in the forest to his left . |