Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hope 's manager , Terry Lawless , himself white , told me of how he first became aware of this . |
| 3 | As for how he first came into my hands , you shall ask him that for yourself . ’ |
| 4 | That 's all Danny talked about when 'e first come 'ome from France . |
| 5 | On the contrary , as I have insisted , one indelibly American thing about Pound from the day when he first reached London was his , as it must seem to us , excessive faith in know-how , in a communicable ‘ bag of tricks ’ . |
| 6 | Someone once asked Sir Austin Pearce when he first decided to become chairman of Esso . |
| 7 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | David was 4½ when he first went to school and not unlike most mothers Mrs Jones was upset at not having him around the house . |
| 9 | Allison acknowledges that there was a slightly strained period when he first began working with the group , but he found Charman particularly antagonistic . |
| 10 | Ah , the old days , when he first came over — his reverie was cut short by the boom of the gong announcing the elevation of the host . |
| 11 | For example , his eyes were necessary for the finding of food and the locating of enemies , to name but two of many purely necessary functions , but there must have been a time when he first began to enjoy the visual beauty all around him . |
| 12 | He 'd spent an afternoon with Morton when he first joined the company , as part of his induction . |
| 13 | It was n't until a week later that I was able to ring John Reeves , vicar of St Luke 's , Cranham , who later said that he was intrigued from the word go by the strange activities we were involved with when he first contacted us . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh no , I 've known Paul since 1984 when he first appeared on the LA scene in an excellent band called Black Sheep . |
| 15 | Yet despite admitting that would love to play for New Zealand , and that he had no intention of using his Scottish connections when he first came to play in Britain , McIntosh fiercely defends his right to play for Scotland . |
| 16 | 13 AUTHOR Martin Amis was dismissive of Super Mario when he first appeared in Donkey Kong . |
| 17 | Supported by a wide range of companies — including British Steel , which sponsored Chay when he first completed the route 21 years ago — each of the 10 steel-hulled ‘ sloops ’ are identical . |
| 18 | The soap 's comic everyman , Joe was estranged from his wife and kids when he first appeared three years ago to ‘ replace ’ Kylie . |
| 19 | However , in September when he first saw the chemists ' proposal the ‘ good ’ data did not yet exist , indeed , did not exist until early in the new year . |
| 20 | STEVEN Richard was 11 when he first had a girlfriend . |
| 21 | Tuff Gong employs 65 people and began in earnest at Bob 's Addis Ab shop on Orange Street in 1977 , when he first pressed records on the manual machines that now stand in the yard . |
| 22 | A student of history and politics at Edinburgh University , he was only 17 when he first played for Gala 's senior side and , since then , has achieved a meteoric advance through Scotland 's enviable structure . |
| 23 | He remembers when he first came across seventeen-year-old Jean Shrimpton posing for a Kelloggs ad with his friend Brian Duffy . |
| 24 | And so does a man , or at least he does when he first falls in love , when he 's too caught up to pay any attention to what other fellows think . |
| 25 | He had a variety of unskilled jobs , and at the beginning of the 1880s , when he first became involved in radical politics , he was working in a wallpaper warehouse . |
| 26 | His own union grew from 1,000 when he first took office to 10,000 within a decade . |
| 27 | The principal love affair of his life was with Adelaide Foltinowicz ( ‘ Missie ’ ) , who was twelve when he first met her serving in a restaurant , ‘ The Poland ’ , at Sherwood Street . |
| 28 | ‘ Much too small , ’ said Bernard when he first saw it . |
| 29 | Having studied the text and read critical appreciations of it , my natural reaction to Satan is still the same as it was when he first appeared to me . |
| 30 | Since the days when he first settled at Yarrundi to farm sheep and cattle on the fertile Liverpool plains , Stephen Coxen had accumulated a substantial tract of land amounting to about 12,000 acres and about as many head of livestock . |