Example sentences of "where [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It dates from 1968 and I have no memory of where I first heard it . |
| 2 | It 's where I first saw someone beaten to death . ’ |
| 3 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 4 | Hoo-Woo took me to the door where I first came in . |
| 5 | In fact , that 's where I first saw you . ’ |
| 6 | At the cross , at the cross where I first saw the light , and the burden of my heart rolled away , it was there by faith I receive my sight and now I am happy all the day ! |
| 7 | The old lady said , ‘ I came back here because over fifty years ago this is where I first fell in love . ’ |
| 8 | Erm that 's where I first got married . |
| 9 | That 's where my first house was , where they are now . |
| 10 | It is also where she first met many of the people who have since become loyal and supportive friends . |
| 11 | and from the Exea , Exeter College where she first knew me , so |
| 12 | Nothing really constructive got done there But it was where we first had a serious go at turning ourselves into a real band . |
| 13 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 14 | At the old church near Yoxford where we first met ? ’ |
| 15 | All he did was remain at the point where they first met . |
| 16 | But then , about one year in six , some fortunate swirl in the currents brings them back to the island where they first fell into the water a month earlier and at a high tide in December , a horde of tiny crablets no bigger than ants suddenly emerges from the waves and marches valiantly up the beach and on inland to restock the forest . |
| 17 | I noticed when i went by on Sunday , that all those houses have been built , right the way down to the , as you go on er p on erm on what 's the name of the place where they first er the first lot of . |
| 18 | They called themselves the Red Lions , after the name of the pub where they first met in Birmingham in 1839 . |
| 19 | This research project examines the experience of ethnic minority children at the point where they first come into contact with educational system , ie in nursery schools . |
| 20 | Conversation between them had been a problem in the hospital where they first met , right up to the night when she pushed his cot into an empty room , locked the door , took off her uniform and climbed in beside him . |
| 21 | It 's been revealed that a man who 's thought to have killed his wife and two young children , visited the town where his first wife was buried , before drowning himself . |
| 22 | Gorleston is where his first wife was buried after she was killed in an accident in Oxford fifteen years ago . |
| 23 | ‘ Franzi ’ was born in London in 1913 , but was brought up from 1919 onwards in Munich , where he first experimented with photography . |
| 24 | Life went on that way until 1986 , when he moved to New Orleans , where he first received notice for being arrested twice in six months for driving while intoxicated . |
| 25 | Ellen twisted away and Sweetman laughed at her obvious discomfiture , then , as coolly as though he owned Wavebreaker , he stepped down into the central cockpit where he first brushed at , then sat on , one of the white cushioned seats by the ship 's wheel . |
| 26 | Then he drove for 45 minutes to a deserted spot and raped her before dumping his sobbing victim in the village of Cheriton , near Winchester , Hants — 10 miles from where he first struck . |
| 27 | But Tomba will ski in his usual buccaneering style at the resort where he first tasted World Cup victory five years ago . |
| 28 | Columbus had an excellent reason for naming the island where he first landed after crossing the Atlantic " San Salvador " . |
| 29 | Here 's the flight of steps and the balustrade where he first set eyes on Rose . |
| 30 | He slithers up the slope where he first came down . |