Example sentences of "[adv] see for the first time " in BNC.

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1 The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male .
2 On the way back from that holiday in Provence , the party stopped in Paris , which John was also seeing for the first time .
3 But now she looked around her , really seeing for the first time the humming activity of the fruit and vegetable market , breathing in the aromatic smells , noticing how charming the open square was , with its border of pizza stalls and cafés and bistros .
4 The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station .
5 She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died .
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