Example sentences of "[pron] first [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when I first saw simulated sex on TV , putting myself in the place of the woman , the man on top of me . |
| 2 | When I first saw this photograph I wept . |
| 3 | Yes , that was exactly my reaction when I first saw this set announced . |
| 4 | What is more , Celtic and German dialects received very early the Greek verb in the sense of " to graft " : it has given " enter " in French , " impfen " in German , and I like to remember that I first met this word in my childhood as a current term of Piedmontese agriculture . |
| 5 | When I first met these ideas , I was reluctant to accept them , because they seemed to suggest that our knowledge of the world is more unreliable than I would like to think . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When I first had oral sex I was like totally out and I started retching . |
| 8 | When I first heard Arabic music I was fascinated , then tormented . |
| 9 | My only quibble is that when I first heard this song , at an afternoon gig in Dublin 's City Centre early this year , it was twice as long and consequently twice as precious . |
| 10 | When Ann and I first visited this area , we followed the same route as luckless Montrose , travelling south from Caithness , over the Ord to the Kyle of Sutherland , past Lairg , then up Strath Oykle . |
| 11 | Climb up sunshine mountain I first learned this song about three years ago when I was doing a show for some of London 's police at Faringdon 's restaurant in London . |
| 12 | So , it worked ideal , and that 's when I first found this place or heard about it well I heard . |
| 13 | I was told when I first entered this business that a pretty girl is on her way out at 23 and all washed up at 27 . |
| 14 | Since its first reported large-scale synthesis back in early 1990 , larger ‘ buckyballs ’ , as the ; y have been inelegantly christened , keep cropping up . |
| 15 | The inquest heard that Ms Griffin was visited six times by health visitor , Deborah Sherr , who first felt real concern during her visit on 4 September . |
| 16 | Bacon is intended to find ’ laws ’ of nature from the sort of quantitative experimental data which were available to the people who first discovered these laws . |
| 17 | I told the hon. Member for Bolton , North-East ( Mr. Thurnham ) , who first raised this matter , that he should draw it to the attention of the Serjeant at Arms , when appropriate action would be taken . |
| 18 | The project will collect the information necessary for investigating the above areas by sending a postal questionnaire to all students who first received higher education grants in 1979 and in 1985 . |
| 19 | It was Gauss who first disclosed this power in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae . |
| 20 | In making this break with tradition , James , it seems , had come to the conclusion that it was time for the intellectual elite to shut up and listen to the workers for a change for it was they who were at the sharp end of the production system and therefore they who first sensed any changes in patterns of production . |
| 21 | Their new appointments will reunite Mark Baker and Bruce Lack , who first met several years ago on a training ship . |
| 22 | Those who first heard this story would have understood well enough that if the rebel leaders were to be punished , then the other members of their families might have to suffer with them . |
| 23 | It was the demagogues of Ancient Rome who first made proper government impossible . |
| 24 | It was Jedburgh weavers who first combined two colours of yarn to produce the now familiar look of ‘ tweed ’ . |
| 25 | There are instances , fortunately very rare , of mothers simulating illness in their children in order to get medical attention — this is known as ‘ Munchausen-by-proxy ’ or ‘ Meadow 's syndrome ’ after Professor Roy Meadows , who first described two cases in 1977 . |
| 26 | Presumably many of those who first examined this Daguerreotype were familiar with Whitehall and this row of shops and could read more with a naked eye . |
| 27 | It was Peirce who first termed such expressions indexical signs , and argued that they determined a referent by an existential relation between sign and referent ( see Burks , 1949 ) Peirce 's category in fact included rather more than the directly Context-dependent expressions that are now called deictic or indexical , and his particular system of categories has not been put to much effective use in linguistic pragmatics ( but see e.g. Bean , 1978 ) . |
| 28 | We remember who first performed that deed or developed this technique . |
| 29 | It was the Quaker ironmaster Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) who first used this method successfully here in 1709 , and in so doing , he made Coalbrookdale the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and Shropshire — for a time — the centre of the industrial world , with ideal coal deposits at hand to give the area a head start in the production of pig-iron . |
| 30 | I think it was Kevin Clifford who first pushed another carp development , the flavouring of baits , for bream . |