Example sentences of "when [pron] [vb past] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I did the first two talks , Dawn was n't trained enough to fly , though on the second she did manage a short hop , but by the time this big lecture came along she was flying on the creance . |
| 2 | Yet when I placed the first hot pad on to the boy 's twisted left leg he seemed not to feel any pain ; I supposed the pain of the spasms had made him impervious to a lesser pain . |
| 3 | Ahl , 18 , from Exeter , outplayed her opponent particularly in the second set when she took the first five games . |
| 4 | The Wright bothers did this when they developed the first operational airplane . |
| 5 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 6 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |