Example sentences of "[pers pn] saw [art] first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ .
2 One survivor says : ‘ When I saw the first bomb fall , I knew that it was going to be a bad day for America ’ .
3 She saw the first researchers , long-dead now but their essence still lived , frozen in the flow of electrons .
4 That was the day she saw the first crocuses around the roots of the tree .
5 JTR had chickened out and was travelling south - ‘ we saw the first snows fall before we left … ’ — to write up his chapter retrospectively on previous rambles in Skye , for some obscure reason .
6 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 ’ .
7 A micro-second after he saw the first flash , the bullet which had come from it was embedding itself in his skull .
8 When asked what use it was , Franklin gave the same reply as when he saw the first balloon ascent in 1783 … ’
9 Labourer Nick Stylianou , 26 , was repairing paving stones when he saw the first bomb explode .
10 He saw the first group of storm-troopers in the forest to his left .
11 As he saw the first men fall in the ambush , Lachlan 's shipmaster yelled for his men to fall back .
12 He moved as soon as he saw the first bead of sweat break on her pallid face , and then he was almost too late .
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