Example sentences of "when [pos pn] [noun sg] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like my father , when he was , when my mother first started going with him he used to smoke cigarettes quite hea heavily erm and er when he had a cold or something like that he 'd say , oh I must have a fag it helps me bring the phlegm up so erm in some ways they 're almost perceived as having a like a cur curative er |
| 2 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 3 | When my Group first met in the summer of 1988 we soon decided to divide the English curriculum into three profile components : |
| 4 | Rogers was just 10 years old when her behaviour first caused concern . |
| 5 | Kelly was 12 months old when her mother first began to worry that all was not well . |
| 6 | When his firm first experimented with making a combine-harvester , the blades they used on the cutter were smooth-edged like the swap-hook , or scythe , or the blades on a reaper-binder . |
| 7 | ‘ Earlier , when his drinking first became a problem , I tried to help . |
| 8 | Mr Paisley was out of the country yesterday but his son , Ian , said that , when his father first heard of the bequest , he had thought it was a hoax . |