Example sentences of "[adv] when [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , only when the first wail of an approaching siren drifted up from below did Ursula remark : ‘ I suppose we 'll have to tell them everything . ’ |
| 2 | So when the first stallion , a beautiful bay unbroken three-year-old , was lead into the ring , and Lindsay saw and sensed in the horse many of those virtues that a horse-lover hopes for , he found himself bidding against two knackers , until he had bought the horse for the price of dogs-meat — $185 ! |
| 3 | ‘ Plancius ’ was anchored some way offshore because of shallow water and reefs , so when the first party went off in the inflatable , we could see no land at all and had to steer by compass . |
| 4 | So when the first warning , it 's near time . |
| 5 | The Morning Post joined in when the First Sea Lord , Sir Francis Bridgeman , resigned in 1912 and Bonar Law took up the issue too , suggesting that Bridgeman had been " brutally ill-used " by Churchill . |
| 6 | The larks had not been up long when the first cars began filtering into the parks . |
| 7 | Now an estimated 1,000 traditionalist vicars may break away when the first woman is ordained . |
| 8 | Two operators work best when the first starts to apply chemical while the other assembles the machine and gets it running . |
| 9 | Manchester Utd 1 Manchester City 1 JUST when the First Division championship seemed within touching distance for the first time in a quarter of a century , Steve Bruce pushed it just out of Manchester United 's reach at Old Trafford last night . |
| 10 | Nobody knows exactly when the first sparkling Champagne was made but the famous Benedictine monk from the abbey of Hautvillers certainly was a crucial figure in its early development . |
| 11 | World stockmarkets reacted with relief and optimism at the start of the Gulf war , but some of the gains were wiped out when the first hopes of a quick victory faded , and the Soviet Union turned violent again . |
| 12 | It must have been quite a spectacle though when the first combine came |
| 13 | But I remember quite well when the first incandescent gas mantles came in . |
| 14 | Even when the first owners were crushed and dead , their things were not for you . |
| 15 | Any problem added to another problem can make life unbearable , even when the first problem can be lived with by itself . |
| 16 | Even when the first rule eventually gains credit , the amount of credit it gains is only |
| 17 | He said he had first noticed impressions in the earth some years ago when the first of the long hot summers had come . |
| 18 | Particularly when the first half is devoted to such time filling as The Obituary Show : Jeffrey Bernard ( C4 on Tuesday : 9.00–9.30 pm ) . |
| 19 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 20 | Rock'n'roll was born in a London office two months earlier when the first issue of the NME was ‘ put to bed ’ . |