Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , for what it 's worth , how they had first met , Rab in a leather jacket , with his milk bottles , his resemblance to Elvis — in Jailhouse Rock — what had made her wild about him . |
| 2 | Blanche could n't remember later how they kissed first . |
| 3 | To her annoyance she found that just for a while there , while they had been swimming and afterwards when they 'd first gone into the club , she had actually been enjoying his company . |
| 4 | On the contrary , time and again Ashley had found herself thinking about Vitor 's looks , that purring accent , those first moments when they had first met . |
| 5 | Avril 's wish came true on April 6 last year , when the couple were married at the parish church in Saltburn where they 'd first met . |
| 6 | It was shortly before noon when they reached the highway where they had first met Simon . |
| 7 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 8 | The windows of the pump-house blew out with a roar of debris and crashing concrete blocks , one falling where they had first taken cover . |