Example sentences of "[noun sg] when first " in BNC.

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1 You mean this ingrate has n't been yearning , dreaming , fantasising , slavering ever since that magical , lyrical , blossom-scented night when first they met ?
2 The situation was to deteriorate further in the space of an hour when first Bernhard Langer and then Seve Ballesteros lost out to Chip Beck and Paul Azinger respectively .
3 1846 , after all , was the year when first his father and then his sister Caroline had died .
4 To look backward to the time when first the morning stars sang together ! ’
5 Now that was the time when first daylight on Bristol , and we heard the bombers go up , and I went home out on the tram car , and there were the young ones just screaming down into the city , I said , ’ good grief , those bombers have hit something ’ , and it was Filton Aeroplane , people had direct hits on shelters you see .
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