Example sentences of "i [vb past] when [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember the very exciting feeling I got when I first saw one of these magazines before I came out . |
| 2 | Oh yes , yes in the , in the window yes I think and many and many a ticket I got when I first got married to my first wife I used to do my mother-in-law 's little tickets for all the various custards , and , and Eccles cakes and four for thruppence ha'penny it does n't of course I could print right you see she said , being a draughtsman I always could print right so I used to do the four for thruppence ha'penny . |
| 3 | This was much more than I expected when I first had the idea in 1982 of writing a popular book about the universe . |
| 4 | I tell you what I noticed when you first walked in you got you got thick eyeliner on , that 's what I noticed . |
| 5 | It was very good — even though it left a nasty taste in my mouth , the same sort of shudder I felt when I first read The Turn of the Screw . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've no idea how I felt when I first saw you step out of Peter 's jeep that day you arrived at Rocamar . ’ |
| 7 | Most embarrassing item : ‘ Silver trousers , a black PVC jacket and a whip I wore when I first joined the band , I cringe when I think of it now ’ . |
| 8 | The poet Cavendish described the new palace as a paradise on earth and so I thought when we first glimpsed its towers and golden cupolas above the trees . |
| 9 | CATHERINE You know what I thought when you first came in ? |
| 10 | No , I took it home , I I was sort of leaving that to you you know , as you say , as you 've just mentioned now that , but no , I thought when you first of you said have n't got the time to put these all the layers of on , you know and |
| 11 | ‘ That 's what I thought when I first came . ’ |
| 12 | I thought when I first saw Mr. Belville at the masquerade that he was the finest gentleman I had ever seen . |
| 13 | As I said , that 's what I thought when I first met you . ’ |
| 14 | I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error . |
| 15 | And er god you should of heard him , god if it ai n't Ross all over again , mummy , mummy and she left him there , as I said when they first came he was in the far bedroom , well now I suppose with all these people she 's rearranged it indoors and he 's in the one next to our house , and she 's shouting at him and er it went on how , I ca n't tell you how long , I mean , Bev and I was talking through bedrooms you know |
| 16 | I froze when they first said that in the town where we lived for his firm job . |
| 17 | Now , if you 'll let me get to work while there 's still light , I ought to be able to confirm what I suspected when I first saw her — ’ He paused , bending over the body , a long hardwood implement in his hand . |