Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] when [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |
| 2 | He found , however , as he loped along , ostensibly to school , that he could not feel the same bitterness that he had done when he first started to write . |
| 3 | ‘ Doctor Livingstone , I presume , ’ he had said when they first appeared on the terrace and Flora had darted over to us with glad , accented cries : ‘ Richard , Elizabeth , what an extraordinary thing ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ She 'll sort me out like a good Daily Telegraph lady , ’ Arlott had said when she first came to look after them at Alresford . |
| 5 | ‘ Dreadfully sorry , old chap ! ’ the Commander had said when he first heard , Lis voice wheezing and whistling in his throat . |
| 6 | They ran back to the house for breakfast , George excited at their success , Libby content with the same feeling she had had when she first persuaded the old pony to come up to her and accept sugar from her outstretched palm . |
| 7 | He had never completely recovered from the serious illness he had had when he first arrived . |
| 8 | The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment . |
| 9 | In all these months when Matthew had kept out of her way , he had changed from the boy she had known when she first came to Maisie 's house . |
| 10 | Although this feat was probably know to McBride , he most likely was responding to the increasing image control evident in a painting like ‘ The Shelton with Sunspots ’ as a radical departure from the work he had encountered when he first began to review her exhibitions in 1923 . |