Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | But I had this instinct that you 'd have a better chance if you first spent some time with me — ’ |
| 15 | Funnily enough , she could remember when she first heard that name . |
| 16 | After a decade in office Mrs Thatcher was still an exception to this trend and was as popular as when she first became Prime Minister . |
| 17 | When she first saw these combs in the shop window , she wanted them . |
| 18 | Despite her success , Buchi Emecheta still feels about this country much as she did when she first arrived 30 years ago , on a grey March morning in Liverpool . |
| 19 | ‘ Admit that this has been between us since we first saw each other . |
| 20 | Before washing we first cleaned any food residue using earth , pine needles or grass ; utensils were pushed into the earth until they were clean then we washed in the soapy water ; rinsed , then dipped into a pot of boiling water to sterilize . |
| 21 | ‘ When we first held these sales , we 'd have up to 600 lots but now it 's less than that , ’ Alastair explained . |
| 22 | One study found that nearly two thirds of patients had had their incontinence for over two years before they first sought professional advice . |
| 23 | It is interesting that , according to media reports , their idea to pursue test-tube fusion goes back to 1985 , the year that they first did published research together . |
| 24 | They first presented small milk containers ‘ of the type often provided with coffee in restaurants ’ , with intact tops , to 16 birds . |
| 25 | The huge increase is partly down to last year 's introduction of the finger-shaped crumpet , the first non-circular one since they first tickled English taste buds in the Middle Ages . |
| 26 | Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession . |
| 27 | It first attained some prominence during the Han dynasty when contacts with the west were intensified . |
| 28 | Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive schoolwhich now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schools will finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago . |
| 29 | Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive school which now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schoolswill finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago . |
| 30 | Since it first started 51 years ago , opencast mining , too , has seen remarkable changes . |