Example sentences of "when he [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since that day in August when he had first visited the house up the valley , he had , during the past ten weeks , made a dozen return visits . |
| 2 | He was two years older than me and was only eighteen when he had first killed somebody . |
| 3 | With the flat , disciplined North German plain rattling past , he suddenly remembered when he had first been posted to Germany how surprised and even unnerved he had been to find that all the buildings seemed familiar . |
| 4 | JOHN Harding proved he was top of the spots when he came first in Alexandra Pottery 's annual dominoes competition . |
| 5 | For a moment , when he 'd first stepped back from it , he 'd experienced the satisfaction of the true craftsman . |
| 6 | Charles thought back to when he 'd first met Bernard in Cardiff — a gauche , rather insecure young man with a slight stammer . |