Example sentences of "see [art] [noun] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 2 | Equally , almost half had come to see the company for the first time . |
| 3 | Behind it lay two political motives : first , to see the Plan as the first step towards an effective political integration , and second the political conviction that stability and union within Western Europe rested ultimately upon a rapprochement between France and West Germany . |
| 4 | Swindon Town against Newcastle United … the battle of the giants … the County Ground was bursting with its biggest crowd in years to see the gladiators of the first division … |
| 5 | We arrived to see the tops of the first ladder against the wall . |
| 6 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 7 | Turakina behaved as if she was seeing the offworlder for the first time . |
| 8 | He had often imagined seeing the enemy for the first time , but it was strange how very commonplace and yet how exciting this baptism was . |
| 9 | Acceptance came when their eldest daughter , Claire , then aged five , expressed her delight at seeing the twins for the first time and said simply : ‘ Oh look Mammy , they 're stuck together . ’ |
| 10 | We had Behrens , we had the designs — have you seen the set for the first performances of Salome ? |
| 11 | Actresses could see the faces in the first row . |
| 12 | But the Jesuits broke the agreement ; you can see the consoles on the first and second storeys which once held statues . |
| 13 | Erm as you can see the sales in the first two are expected to be four point nine almost five million pounds . |
| 14 | ‘ She insisted we did n't see the show before the first night , ’ explained Waterman . |
| 15 | Such educated guesswork can be eliminated if you can actually see the fish in the first place . |
| 16 | It had been much more exciting than seeing a weka for the first time . |
| 17 | Spring 1906 saw the election of the first Dumas . |
| 18 | Chaucer worked in the first Customs House , and Pepys saw the building of the first wet dock at Blackwall . |
| 19 | Homer Scott was delighted when he saw the building for the first time at the May Day meeting and even the course bookmakers who are not known for lavishing praise on anything , are impressed by what has been built . |
| 20 | I saw the voice for the first time ! |
| 21 | Between 1801 and 1851 the area 's population doubled and it doubled again from 1851 to 1921 , the year that saw the culmination of the first phase of the town 's development as a capitalist urban locality . |
| 22 | The late seventies saw the establishment of the first women 's film/video distributors , Cinema of Women , followed , some years later , by a second distributor , Circles . |
| 23 | ‘ When my father , six months before his death , saw the car for the first time at the Paris show — where he decided to go even though his health was not good — he fell in love with it immediately . |
| 24 | When Marek saw the headstone for the first time no one in the neighbourhood whom he asked knew anything about the man who had been buried there . |
| 25 | He felt his bowels loosen , felt the hairs on his neck and forearms prickle as he saw the face of the first intruder , the one who held the gun . |
| 26 | Last year saw the completion of the first ever tenant-led £1.3 million ‘ Passive Solar Energy Demonstration Project ’ . |
| 27 | Elsewhere on Southern Region ( where main-line passengers could see no prospect of new stock ) 1980 saw the introduction of the first refurbished 4-CEP ( Class 411 ) unit No 411506 . |
| 28 | The second half of the third millennium BC saw the introduction of the first metalworking into Britain . |
| 29 | And as she hit the wall , the breath knocked out of her , she saw the intruder for the first time . |
| 30 | After a period of subjection to Assyrian and later neo-Babylonian rulers , Persia saw the emergence in the first millennium BC of the Achaemenid dynasty . |