Example sentences of "[pron] saw the first [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull . |
| 5 | When asked what use it was , Franklin gave the same reply as when he saw the first balloon ascent in 1783 … ’ |
| 6 | Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode . |
| 7 | He saw the first group of storm-troopers in the forest to his left . |
| 8 | He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late . |