Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever you first encounter a new programming language the ‘ Hello World ’ program is a good starting point . |
| 2 | That 's how I first met him . |
| 3 | ‘ It is how I first saw you , ’ he confessed grimly . |
| 4 | , see I got very pally with old , , we use to play snooker together that 's how I first met him and then we went there , and I never knew he 'd been in the cos I transferred to the R E's you see . |
| 5 | It was quite interesting how she first materialized . |
| 6 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 7 | that 's how she first got that |
| 8 | Can you tell us how you first became involved in the dispute ? |
| 9 | Singer then asked respondents to say how they first heard about the Detroit riot , and what details they were initially given . |
| 10 | From a socio-cultural point of view , the crucial issue is not what our remote ancestors looked like , or the hypothetical level of their IQ , but when or where or why or how they first learned to talk . |
| 11 | And I ca n't remember how it first came up , but we had this argument . |
| 12 | William Golding , the oldest of the new novelists , has told how his first novel emerged from reflecting , as so many in the 1940s reflected , how readily Hitler and his National Socialists had revived barbarism in our times , and in a modern and advanced industrial state . |
| 13 | Though over thirty years had passed , he could still remember how his first major role for the Oxford University Dramatic Society had been greeted by an undergraduate critic ( who , incidentally , later became a particularly malevolent Minister of Health and Social Security ) : |
| 14 | In a 1975 introduction to his first novel , Jill , Larkin has revealed what his college life in war-time Oxford was like , and how he first met Amis there — an account somewhat amended by Amis in his contribution to Larkin at Sixty ( 1982 ) ; and collections of essays with titles like My Oxford ( 1977 ) and My Cambridge ( 1977 ) have assembled reminiscences of how mind and character were once forged round and about the tender age of twenty . |
| 15 | Hope 's manager , Terry Lawless , himself white , told me of how he first became aware of this . |
| 16 | As for how he first came into my hands , you shall ask him that for yourself . ’ |
| 17 | Remember how our first two graphs showed spaces moved both across and up the graphs to give information . |
| 18 | And that , my friends , explains why my first words to you , my first peculiar words , were ‘ But everything is still to be done ’ . ’ |
| 19 | I remember when I first met you at the house of terror ; what you gave me , all that you gave me . |
| 20 | I knew when I first thought of it , he wrote , when I first set it up , that it was to be the final piece . |
| 21 | Because I became aware of the problems when I first came into gliding , I wrote a booklet on the subject , called Sub-Gravity Sensations and Gliding Accidents ( available from the BGA in the UK and SSA in the USA ) . |
| 22 | I like to think he will be forgotten as the belligerent sycophant of Fascism and remembered as what he was when I first knew him , in the years before our little war of 1914 , when he was trying to take London by storm . |
| 23 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 24 | Tommy Roberts used to phone me on a Saturday when I first started working there . |
| 25 | In fact , I remember when I first introduced him to my father and before he 'd said a word , I said , ‘ This is my father ’ who told me afterwards that he had n't realized that it was a boy because I mean … long hair — his hair was really long . |
| 26 | David was n't there , so I was living with Angela and that 's when I first got the inkling that all was not well between David and Tony . |
| 27 | I think it was Angie and Tony , going back to that incredible support that I told you about when I first met them , that they were also dreamers and had such faith and believed in David 's future and his destiny . |
| 28 | I , since the time when I first became morally certain I was in love , seem to have grown years older … |
| 29 | I remember when I first heard the music I panicked . |
| 30 | This was in the heady days of 1978 , when I first lost my leg , when very flared trousers were in . |