Example sentences of "we first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We first met him at an elegant hotel in the ‘ uptown ’ district of Manhattan , New York , overlooking Central park , a watering place well known to artists ( Joe Cocker also happened to be in residence at the time ) . |
| 2 | ‘ When we first held these sales , we 'd have up to 600 lots but now it 's less than that , ’ Alastair explained . |
| 3 | Nothing really constructive got done there But it was where we first had a serious go at turning ourselves into a real band . |
| 4 | When we first started with him , even when we were rehearsing properly with him , all we could think of was that he could n't sing . |
| 5 | The river we had crossed was to our left and was not , as we first thought , melt water from the spout ; that formed a river to our right . |
| 6 | ‘ My husband moans that I 'm not as slim as when we first met ’ |
| 7 | He gets annoyed if I say anything about it , but that does n't stop him going on about how slim I was at 17 when we first met . |
| 8 | Naturally , before we could get involved , we first had to show the Vietnamese government that we had truly grasped the often complex problems of its country . |
| 9 | When we first met , there was a great deal of affection — there was a great deal of love and a great deal of admiration and respect as well you know . |
| 10 | We first performed it in New York where a crazy art dealer decided to bring it to London , so to London we came . |
| 11 | We first did about five tracks which was pressed on a private white album , with me on one side and David on the other . |
| 12 | Given knowledge of the parts and their causes , synthesis will culminate in knowledge of the causes of the whole with which we first began in experience . |
| 13 | Agnes asked herself , and she thought : When we thrust out into the world just as we are , we first have to identify with that particular throw of the dice , with that accident organized by the divine computer : to get over our surprise that precisely this ( what we see facing us in the mirror ) is our self . |
| 14 | We first hear of clashes between the Israelites and the Philistines in the book of Judges , and in particular in the Samson stories ( chs. |
| 15 | 1Off — the verses which are usually taken as belonging to the Priestly strand of the Bible — that we first find mention of the covenantal aspects of circumcision : |
| 16 | That was the year that we first went into Canada and I remember that I picked the Canadian franchise because she did n't war a bra ! |
| 17 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 18 | My husband and the boys cleared a path through the undergrowth when we first came here , and they called it the Burma Road . ’ |
| 19 | When we first moved here , we were very keen to be Irish and we cut our own turf . |
| 20 | When we prepared the Fifth Symphony , we recorded it as a trial , worked on it again , then recorded it properly — sixty hours before we first gave it in public ! |
| 21 | When we first met , you were making your second Berlin cycle of the nine Beethoven symphonies . |
| 22 | She is near the age we were Ellen when we first went into service and has no idea how things should be done . |
| 23 | I was married to Shimon when we first met , and that did n't put a wall between us . |
| 24 | That is to say , we first classify organisms into species , and then group the species into genera , the genera into families , the families into orders , and so on . |
| 25 | We first look at the macro-organization , that is the organization of services on a national or regional level , including their geographical distribution and overall capacity ( Ploeg , 1986 ) . |
| 26 | It 's been six years now since we first looked at Faliraki as a club resort . |
| 27 | I did n't care two pins about killing Boche , but I did get upset at the spectacle of starving French civilians and Arabs when we first took Tunis . |
| 28 | When we first drank claret we heard it called by that name , we were eating such and such a dinner etc . |
| 29 | Why do n't we first build buildings in the most economical and obvious way like people did in simpler times ? ’ , the talk is aimed at 15–18 year olds . |
| 30 | When we first began to meet and talk in 1963 , he was expecting to be offered a Cabinet post in education if Labour won and he could keep in step for long enough . |