Example sentences of "first see [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And Rona Pondick — who must have had an epiphany upon first seeing a photograph of Kurt Seligmann 's 1937 three-legged Ultra Furniture stool — is showing hanging legs , dismembered breasts and fur balls with teeth in them at Jose Freire all this month ( until 5 June ) .
2 For at least one of these anecdotes he had a written source ; he was not the first to see the confrontation between Clovis and Alaric in religious terms .
3 There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me ’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of ’ .
4 In the same way , when Celie first saw a photo of Shug Avery she wanted to meet her and would day-dream about her , ‘ She like a queen to me . ’
5 When Topaz first saw the Convent of St. Francis she was filled with panic .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 ) .
9 But please to remember that the Battle of Britain boffinery first saw the light of day in the mid-1930s .
10 THIS wide ranging exhibition of metal work in all its many forms first saw the light of day in Lincoln .
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