Example sentences of "[pron] when [pron] [vb past] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd sensed something when he 'd first stood in the garden with the children ; she 'd sensed it when she 'd opened the hall door to him . |
| 2 | No wonder Piers had been so contemptuous of her when they had first met . |
| 3 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 4 | Their host , Douglas , had used it when he had first arrived . |
| 5 | This was an old carriage , but still well capable of performing the task set for it when it had first joined the rolling-stock in the year that Holly had been born . |
| 6 | That he had begun to make them when he had first discovered that letter on Eleanor 's word-processor , and was following them with absolutely dogged determination . |