Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The Wright bothers did this when they developed the first operational airplane .
3 A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries .
4 She hoped he 'd stop when he reached the next supporting strut .
5 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 .
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