Example sentences of "saw the first [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When asked what use it was , Franklin gave the same reply as when he saw the first balloon ascent in 1783 … ’ |
| 3 | In 1965 and 1967 Medau was included in the Leeds Festival of Movement and Dance , and 1967 also saw the first Easter Course in Leeds , which for the next decade established the pattern of alternate years in the South and Leeds . |
| 4 | In the summer of the same year that saw the first air mail service across Western Canada I met Hollick-Kenyon by arrangement in New York . |
| 5 | Armistice day 1921 saw the first poppy day appeal , sponsored by the British Legion . |
| 6 | One survivor says : ‘ When I saw the first bomb fall , I knew that it was going to be a bad day for America ’ . |