Example sentences of "at [art] first sight " in BNC.

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1 I leave the road at the first sight of Loch Arkaig and go across country , keeping to the paths through the bracken .
2 At the first sight of Billy 's face , Yanto 's headache felt better .
3 Branson was as awed as anyone could expect to be at the first sight of their own Jumbo Jet .
4 But her pulses had started their racing , her heart its pounding at the first sight of him , her stomach lurching , as it always did , clean over and then , for hours afterwards , refusing to be still .
5 ‘ You remind me of a wild animal sometimes , poised ready to flee at the first sight of a hunter 's gun . ’
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