Example sentences of "my first sight " in BNC.
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| 1 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 2 | My first sight of a Lofoten fishing port was on a small island off Svolvær . |
| 3 | This was not how I wished to catch my first sight of the fabled city of Lazarillo de Tormes and of Gil Blas , who in Le Sage 's novel made the journey to Salamanca only from Oviedo in the north . |
| 4 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
| 5 | It must relate to my first sight of my mother 's genitals — but not the last — for we lived in just one room . |
| 6 | My first sight of Bletchley Park was a very considerable disappointment . |
| 7 | My first sight of Stonehenge was on a still January morning soon after the war . |
| 8 | Nancy did n't appear through the mist , and my first sight of her was nothing like so romantic . |
| 9 | My first sight of it , and to a slightly lesser extent every subsequent sighting , was breathtaking — no other word for it . |
| 10 | As the organist began the introduction , the lights dimmed to add ‘ mood ’ , allowing me my first sight of the sparse audience . |
| 11 | This was my first sight of Rosemary at the time of her engagement to Basil . |
| 12 | Mrs Rumney herself let me in and I felt a shock of surprise at my first sight of her . |
| 13 | I do remember my first sight of the Palace of the Winds , a seemingly immense building , reddish in colour , its front pierced by row above row of latticed windows . |
| 14 | But I suppose I 'm prejudiced by my first sight of her , a passion-killer if ever there was one . |
| 15 | This was my first sight and smell of the deliciously flavoured delicacies that came from all over Europe . |