Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [pers pn] see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitlock swung the Golf Corbio on to the sliproad , past the hoarding , and as he reached the crest of the first rise he saw the plant laid out before him , hemmed in behind ten-feet-high fencing crowned with layers of barbed wire , all of which he later discovered could be electrified at the flick of a switch . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Bob Smith kept edging her towards Malta and at first light they saw the island over the long swells following the storm . |
| 3 | He asked the first policeman he saw the way to London University and was pointed in the direction of the Strand . |
| 4 | The first time I saw the fish inflate , the only other occupants of the tank were three Green Chromis . |
| 5 | The first time I see the exhibition is on Varnishing Day , a week before the Private View . |
| 6 | For the first time she saw the red tin container he had been hiding behind his back . |
| 7 | The track took a right hand curve and for the first time he saw the bridge standing high above the track . |