Example sentences of "when i have first " in BNC.

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1 She laughed the same way as when I 'd first seen her .
2 well yeah now , but you , you were saying this , we , we had this conversation when I 'd first got here , before any of this started to happen
3 When I had first arrived I had seen a couple of press people milling around , but now there seemed to be a whole platoon of them , cameras at the ready .
4 I remembered that when I had first come to live with Jean-Claude , I had learnt to hear him thinking , and how I had not lost this gift but came to enjoy the sound of his inner voice much less .
5 When I had first heard of my appointment to Stornoway I had been elated at the prospect of leaving a somewhat dull routine existence down south .
6 When I had first read The Idea of a Christian Society , I was at once struck by the compatibility of some of Hardy 's remarks on the role and function of the Anglican Church with Eliot 's own views .
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