Example sentences of "[noun sg] when [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had a very nasty moment when she first told me . ’ |
| 2 | The one thing that John Milton knew from the moment when he first began to reflect on his destiny , was that he was going to write a great poem . |
| 3 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 4 | Again , let me take you back — this time to the moment when you first fell in love . |
| 5 | Go back to the moment when you first met and remember how it felt . |
| 6 | On the Sunday evening when I first rang him . |
| 7 | Allison acknowledges that there was a slightly strained period when he first began working with the group , but he found Charman particularly antagonistic . |
| 8 | On the contrary , as I have insisted , one indelibly American thing about Pound from the day when he first reached London was his , as it must seem to us , excessive faith in know-how , in a communicable ‘ bag of tricks ’ . |
| 9 | But the day when I first beheld this city I was well pleased therewith , and coveted it that I might be its Lord ; and I besought the Lord our God that he would give it me . |
| 10 | I well remember the day when I first stared hard , malevolent racism in the face . |
| 11 | He is as you know , 67 , but I have never been amongst those who thought that he was growing old and tired … he is , I think , just as fit as the day when I first saw him in July 1946 . |
| 12 | But you have n't changed since the day when I first met you . |
| 13 | It was the suit Sir Henry had been wearing on the morning when we first met him in Baker Street . |
| 14 | erm , Jay 's sister , Tamsin it 's her twenty first on Monday , so he was , like , write out her birthday card , right , and he was like , trying to write something funny , so he was constructing this thing , like reading it out to me , and half an hour when I first got there . |
| 15 | Without these two crucial procedures Champagne would not be the sophisticated product it is today , yet we can not trace the precise date when they first occurred , nor identify any particular person responsible for their innovation . |
| 16 | The owners signalled how serious they were about halting the pay spiral last year when they first detached labour negotiations from the baseball commissioner , Fay Vincent , and then detached Mr Vincent from his job . |
| 17 | language I remember you saying in the first year when you first came to Birmingham |
| 18 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 19 | ‘ It is a story of the Myrcans , and of the time when they first came to Minginish to take service with the people of the Vale and the Dales . ’ |
| 20 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 21 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | For example , his eyes were necessary for the finding of food and the locating of enemies , to name but two of many purely necessary functions , but there must have been a time when he first began to enjoy the visual beauty all around him . |
| 23 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 24 | I , since the time when I first became morally certain I was in love , seem to have grown years older … |
| 25 | You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation . |
| 26 | That was round the time when I first went to see me doctor . |
| 27 | time when I first came to . |