Example sentences of "[adj] when [pron] have first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered how Minch had spoken to him like this when he had first come to the Cages . |
| 2 | In the split-second when he had first mentioned marriage , Ashley had harboured the giddy irrational notion that he might next be going to say he loved her . |
| 3 | Even Benny had looked green when she 'd first seen it , and Benny had had time to get used to the idea . |
| 4 | She knew what he was looking at — the pile of birthday cards on the kitchen table , and the letter that she had just started to rip open when he had first thumped on her door . |
| 5 | She liked Sergei a lot , had fancied him like mad when they 'd first met , at the house of mutual acquaintances in Moscow . |