Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [pron] [vb past] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , th I I must have told you because it 's one of the things that er stand out that on on the day when they dropped the first bomb in I and I I and it was er it 'd be the thirty first of January , but I do n't know whether it was er fifteen or sixteen , nineteen fifteen or nineteen sixteen . |
| 2 | Among the guests , Patricia Pinkerton , who made history earlier this year when she became the first woman to be put in charge of her own parish ; St Briavels in the Forest of Dean . |
| 3 | In July he saw his party make history when it won the first governorship conceded by the ruling party in 60 years . |
| 4 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 5 | The whole is a tribute to the diplomatic skills and national divisions of the Generalsekretär of the Kulturstiftung , Klaus Maurice , whose view of German culture transcends normal politics , as his recent enabling of the British Library to buy the complete series of Tauchnitz classics shows ; for at the time when he retrieved the first piece of the treasure , Quedlinburg was still behind the Wall . |