Example sentences of "[verb] when [pers pn] [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already the features were changing as moisture was drawn out of the flesh , but remembering how Iritnefert had looked when he had first seen her , he could understand how the two girls could be confused . |
| 2 | She did n't know but what she did know was that Fernando would n't do anything to hurt anyone … only herself , as he had threatened when she had first arrived here at the lovely Casa Pinar . |
| 3 | He remembered the release he had felt when he had first heard the teachings of Akhenaten , which had cut away the rotten trappings of the old beliefs , festooned as they were with the cynical speculation of the priests . |
| 4 | He felt the same surge of excitement , the same strong sexual awareness , he had felt when he had first held this sepia photograph in the early days of the summer . |
| 5 | But then , as Christian acidly remarked , his friend Edouard was a man of many parts — not just one , which he had suspected when he had first met Edouard in London . |
| 6 | There had to be some around somewhere , from before he 'd quit smoking when he 'd first started to worry about his health . |
| 7 | Who would have thought when she had first seen him in England that he would drag her into his life , order her about , kiss her ? |
| 8 | Compared to this , the look of anger he had worn when she had first met him in the garden was merely one of passing irritation . |
| 9 | Cardiff turned back to Rohmer , and remembered again that feeling he was sure they 'd shared when they 'd first encountered each other . |
| 10 | This is one reason why firms are often most willing to start with a clean sheet of paper when setting up a new subsidiary , as Britain 's Midland Bank did when it established First Direct , its successful telephone-banking business . |
| 11 | And what the hell had happened when he 'd first met Rohmer ? |
| 12 | Rachel walked behind him , dishevelled , weary and full of resentment that Damian Flint should look as cool and immaculate as he had when he 'd first arrived . |
| 13 | Goalkeeper Alan Main fumbled a Glynn Snodin corner and , in the process , allowed Baird to scramble home his tenth goal of the season after John Robertson had failed to connect when he got first bite at the cherry . |
| 14 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |