Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 2 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |
| 3 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 4 | ‘ When I stood on the first tee in the morning I could hardly see the fairway , ’ said the Atherstone club-mate and friend of Paul Broadhurst , the Ryder Cup player . |
| 5 | Now , when you say to the first person ‘ point to a row across ’ if they point to a row without a king you say ‘ You pointed to this I will take it away ’ . |
| 6 | Now can I er also suggest to you that in discussing this one outstanding item of the housing land allocations , we pursue virtually the same sort of approach that we did yesterday , er and in fact if you look at what is set down under matter One D for discussion , it says is the provision proposed for the Greater York area including the new settlement appropriate etcetera , and in fact when you look at the first item for discussion under the Greater York new settlement issue , we come straight into , does Greater York new settlement represent an appropriate and justified policy response , etcetera . |
| 7 | When she got to the first landing , her mother 's bedroom door suddenly flew open and her mother burst out . |
| 8 | The young woman feels curiously as though she is only playing at house once more when she goes into the first flat or home that she can truly call her own . |
| 9 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 10 | The thought had no sooner entered her mind when she tripped over the first slat of the drawbridge and fell to her knees before she could save herself . |
| 11 | When she cried in the first therapeutic session , he could not move over to comfort her and was surprised when the therapist drew attention to this strong communication which he had ignored . |
| 12 | When we went round the first corner at about 90kph Tony went very quiet . |
| 13 | The information that the Departments have presented to us on which to er respond to the consultation has n't even been very and indeed when we requested after the first round of consultation to know the existing number of lines on which they placed er their , their recommendations . |
| 14 | ‘ Then when we get into the First Division and do n't need Aussie players , the English guys will bring other English mates and the crowd problem is solved . ’ |
| 15 | The problems arise when we shift to the first person , asking how we come to have knowledge of the world , and asking how we are justified in dismissing the possibility that reality is wholly other than we take it to be . |
| 16 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 17 | So when they come across the first element of mystery which they can not understand , they conclude that Christianity is not rational after all . |
| 18 | Some submissions were to clear the initial hurdles relatively quickly , even when they fell at the first one . |
| 19 | While short-term separation of parent and child under favourable circumstances is unlikely to be damaging to the child , long-term separations can have more serious effects , particularly when they occur in the first three to four years of the child 's life . |
| 20 | But when it came to the first anecdote the tale of her son 's embarrassing performance in a school Nativity play the old professional skills suddenly shone through . |
| 21 | Anyway Rick spent what seemed like an eternity before he got the fish near the net but when it showed for the first time it soon became apparent why it had been so stubborn , the fish was massive ! |
| 22 | He was barely 20 years old and already working the nightclub circuit when he wed for the first time . |
| 23 | And another , secondary spasm , when he thought about the first one , and realized that he was more appalled by vulgarity than he was by death . |
| 24 | When he comes to the first dramatic event he appears to be reaching towards a dramatic present here comes but is constrained by the prevailing past tense of the narration . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , former Tottenham player Gary Lineker 's Japanese adventure got underway when he trained for the first time with his Grampus Eight teammates at Nagoya yesterday . |
| 26 | And when he gets it on , the , the C and D truck it sets off , what happens when he stops at the first set of traffic lights ? or turns out ? |
| 27 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |