Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Informal observations suggest that it first becomes popular as a peer group language at the age of eleven or twelve . |
| 2 | You might be interested to know that I first learnt of CPRW while rummaging through old papers left by the Misses Keating — and there were many ! |
| 3 | ‘ Andrew Impey has really come on in leaps and bounds since he first broke into the first team and Ian Holloway does a great job for us . ’ |
| 4 | He distinctly saw her laughing when she first caught sight of Willi covered in pollen . |
| 5 | The place you had to fight your way out of , shouting and wailing as you first hit the light ; the place that imprisoned you , yet kept you warm , fed you . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought she was dead and that 's your fault ] You told me she was dying when we first came . |
| 7 | And one of the things that is happening and mortified when I first came to this company was I could n't see a straight line through . |
| 8 | Write the Captain 's log for the period that starts when they first saw the strange " whale " and ends when he saw the Monongahela for the last time . |
| 9 | She must have panicked when she first smelt the fire . |
| 10 | My heart sank when I first viewed them , since huge paths marching across wild hills usually signal the coming of insensitive forestry . |
| 11 | Dave Preece introduces a technique for laminating that he first used when shaping the curved runners on a sled |
| 12 | She revealed that she first learnt of the threatened closure while her daughter was fighting for life . |
| 13 | What is more , Celtic and German dialects received very early the Greek verb in the sense of " to graft " : it has given " enter " in French , " impfen " in German , and I like to remember that I first met this word in my childhood as a current term of Piedmontese agriculture . |
| 14 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 15 | It 's said that he first traced the outline for his ladylike creation around a tall woman friend . |
| 16 | Most men agreed that the most satisfying fantasy occurs before they first go to bed with a new partner — when having sex is a fantasy that' almost bound to come true . |
| 17 | I tell you what I noticed when you first walked in you got you got thick eyeliner on , that 's what I noticed . |
| 18 | and I thought it was hysterical , it was the fact that you noticed when you first came here about if somebody liked you they always greeted you by swearing at you |
| 19 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |
| 20 | She says when they first moved up there was an old stone sink and a cold water tap ; no hot water and since then the council has put in a new sink with hot and cold running water . |
| 21 | Remember the posture you adopted when you first learned ? |
| 22 | He decided to open his eyes , and immediately knew how God must have felt when he first observed his new creation . |
| 23 | He looked at her with those sensual eyes and she knew how Ma must have felt when she first met Pa . |
| 24 | ‘ Doctor Livingstone , I presume , ’ he had said when they first appeared on the terrace and Flora had darted over to us with glad , accented cries : ‘ Richard , Elizabeth , what an extraordinary thing ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ She 'll sort me out like a good Daily Telegraph lady , ’ Arlott had said when she first came to look after them at Alresford . |
| 26 | ‘ Dreadfully sorry , old chap ! ’ the Commander had said when he first heard , Lis voice wheezing and whistling in his throat . |
| 27 | It was said when he first arrived at Wigan that he had a great act to follow after Lowe but that becomes even more relevant this time for fellow Aussie John Dorahy who takes over the reins . |
| 28 | I think I was so detached when I first had her because of the mental blockage , and the labour , and the birth was so messy and horrible . |
| 29 | Directly beneath the castle walls are the low , picturesque red roofs of the Italian quarter , where the masons and architects , artists and sculptors lodged when they first arrived from Italy to work for the kings of Bohemia . |
| 30 | So how did you feel when you first did fractions ? |