Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] they first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That 's what they were called when they first appeared on the underwear scene in the early 1900s . |
| 4 | In the broken-wing performance , the realism is so remarkable that even human observers can be fooled when they first encounter it . |
| 5 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
| 6 | A cross-sectional study might supply some true incidence information if subjects were asked when they first noticed the onset of the condition of interest . |
| 7 | A mood which seems to be slipped into more and more frequently as the months have elapsed since they first met . |
| 8 | We 're collecting all the information , all the reviews , every album review from all the periodicals , every piece of stuff , so you can trace it all chronologically ; how things were received when they first came out . |
| 9 | Or perhaps values have changed since they first joined . |