Example sentences of "first saw the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that , travelling with his father to the kraals , he had the chance to watch the religious dances of the black tribes ; Grace thinks it was later , after the family had left Rustenburg , that John first saw the dancing at the Johannesburg mines . |
| 2 | ‘ When I first saw the portrait , though the clasp did n't consciously register , my subconscious must have picked it up , because something I could n't pin down nagged at me , and made me want to look again . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ When I first saw the head in the font it just looked familiar — I could n't sort out why . |
| 4 | The author has also included new research on Kandinsky 's early collectors who include the Chicago Lawyer Arthur Jerome Eddy and the important English patron Michael Sadeler , Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University , who first saw the artist 's work at an exhibition in the Albert Hall , London , in 1911 . |
| 5 | Says Mike , ‘ When the chimps first saw the platform , they stared at it for a long time , and then they realised it was just me up there , and carried on . ’ |
| 6 | Like the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire ( Mr. Kirkwood ) , I was concerned when I first saw the complexity of the disability regulations . |
| 7 | I first saw the Baroness as I walked up the drive of Askham Grange prison . |
| 8 | I must confess when I first saw the plan , I was totally confused by it . |
| 9 | When Topaz first saw the Convent of St. Francis she was filled with panic . |
| 10 | David Picker recalled , ‘ When we first saw the film one afternoon , we were stunned by its magic and the magic of Hoffman and Voight together . |
| 11 | They say he looked exactly like the family picture of old Sir Hugo , who first saw the Hound . |
| 12 | Winchester 's position is , and has been since they first saw the copy notice , that the allegations in it were unfounded and that some or all of the factual material on which the allegations were based was inaccurate . |
| 13 | When I first saw the dog , it was quite obvious he 'd been deeply affected by the explosion and had developed a 100-watt phobia for light bulbs ! |
| 14 | It was there I first saw the Face To Face programmes , too , little realising John Freeman would one day become my greatest influence as an interviewer . |
| 15 | Those were details unknown to the Wordsworths when they first saw the house , standing alone on its hillside site between the Quantocks and the sea . |
| 16 | when you first saw the house for the very , very first time and when your wife saw the house , what was the reaction ? |
| 17 | Ballantyne 's boys were very soft when they first saw the pig because they did not want to disturb it when it was sleeping . |
| 18 | On the day we first saw the melin Nigel said , ‘ This is a place about people . ’ |
| 19 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 20 | XPG4 — originally set to come out last May , but delayed due to ‘ complex documentation ’ ( UX No 385 ) is the next-generation of X/Open 's Portability Guide , and builds on the long-established XPG3 , which first saw the light of day back in September 1988 ( UX No 197 ) . |
| 21 | But please to remember that the Battle of Britain boffinery first saw the light of day in the mid-1930s . |
| 22 | At the cross , at the cross where I first saw the light , and the burden of my heart rolled away , it was there by faith I receive my sight and now I am happy all the day ! |
| 23 | THIS wide ranging exhibition of metal work in all its many forms first saw the light of day in Lincoln . |