Example sentences of "[conj] when he first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 2 | ‘ Erik is the first to admit that when he first joined us , he found the physical demands a bit difficult , ’ said Clemence . |
| 3 | The house that when he first saw it had seemed to float on a raft of golden mist , now lay in a wilderness , amidst ragged grass and straggling bushes and trees dead from the heat . |
| 4 | ( It should be recalled that when he first appeared in Hanoi in August , everyone asked ‘ Who is Ho Chi Minh ? ’ ) |
| 5 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |
| 6 | Saw Dennis Law on T V , and he says that when he first played against Danny , he kicked him all round , all , all over the park . |
| 7 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's worked so hard at his game and he 's much more involved than when he first came over from France . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But he 's unusually shy and when he first arrived from Millwall he felt his price tag was a burden . |
| 10 | Adam had only heard one other make these sounds and when he first heard Anne make them his memory escape failed and those two nights were startlingly evoked , so disturbingly in fact that he had the terrible delusion that Anne was doing it to mock him . |
| 11 | Sam was so relieved at the news that mother and child were well that the fact that he had n't won the wager was nothing to him , and when he first laid eyes on the baby all he could do was kneel down and weep for joy . |
| 12 | There is also a contrast between the forge and Satis House as the house is barricaded and the inside is all dark so Pip has to be led by candlelight to Miss Havisham and when he first sees her all in white she looks like a fairy godmother but as he looks closer he sees her decay and yellowness . |
| 13 | Oh his very calm , very calm , and I 'm still going to work , I did n't go to work while , I went too work while he was in hospital , and when he first came out . |
| 14 | Cos when he first hit him he went had . |
| 15 | Frith made all the animals and birds , but when he first made them they were all the same . |
| 16 | No none of you do now but when he first suggested it everyone was up in arms and he poor old soul I remembered he said , I 've had enough change I I believe in this I I 've I 've tried I 'm too old now and out he walked . |
| 17 | But when he first arrived in Swindon he slept in a car park . |
| 18 | it does n't , but when he first sort of put it up , I thought oh crumbs look at that |
| 19 | Beveridge 's four social evils of Want , Disease , Squalor and Ignorance must remain as much the primary targets of any party of the left today as when he first wrote about them half a century ago . |