Example sentences of "when he [vb past] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked what use it was , Franklin gave the same reply as when he saw the first balloon ascent in 1783 … ’ |
| 2 | The Merkut clan was camped along the curve of a small lake , and when he saw the first yurts Burun kicked his st'lyan into a gallop , his spirit soaring with anticipation . |
| 3 | no , but , I mean our can read and he could read when he left the first class , he did really well |
| 4 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 5 | When he reached the first breakwater , Simon turned and waved . |
| 6 | Keith Waugh was armed with only the vaguest canine knowledge when he took the first steps along his career path . |
| 7 | And when he heard the first crash he determined to intervene , in some way that would not dispute the authority of the headmaster 's wife . |
| 8 | A.J. Wilson , the President of the National Deaf Club , and the first deaf person to drive a car back in 1896 , got another ‘ first ’ that was most unwelcome when he became the first deaf driver to fall foul of the road traffic laws and be fined for speeding . |
| 9 | PATRICK Rooney was nine years old when he became the first child to die in Ulster 's violent era . |
| 10 | He was centrally positioned in the six-yard box when he headed the first after 15 minutes ; the second , eight minutes before half-time , he met equally powerfully at the far post . |
| 11 | This was the stark warning given by Professor David Harvey of Newcastle University , when he presented the first in a series of Northern Foods ' milk industry papers . |
| 12 | There was a pause when he ended the First Mystery . |
| 13 | Swail 's hopes of getting back in the match virtually disappeared when he lost the first frame of the final session . |
| 14 | Hertz confirmed Maxwell 's theory when he detected the first radio waves . |
| 15 | Bruce Babbitt , the interior secretary , stepped into this fetid atmosphere on April 30th when he chaired the first of four meetings in the west to hear testimony about grazing on federal land . |