Example sentences of "when he [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was barely 20 years old and already working the nightclub circuit when he wed for the first time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 |