Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it first [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was enormously popular when it first came out in 1764 , and it started a whole train of similar books which even came to include such works of genius as the Brontë sisters ' Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights . |
| 2 | It proved this when it first came out way back in ‘ 85 . |
| 3 | Suddenly the hour is less pleasant than it first appeared |
| 4 | Take-up on that scale could make Mr Major 's first budget a lot more memorable than it first appeared . |
| 5 | The leadership change was widely seen as an attempt to rejuvenate the party , whose fortunes had been at their lowest since it first came to power in 1981 . |
| 6 | However , the baryon fraction is at least 13 per cent for HCG62 , which is significantly larger than the global value , so the situation is not as simple as it first appeared . |
| 7 | He was also very fond of flowers , and as well as things such as marigolds , pansies , marguerites and wallflowers , he grew a rose one does n't see these days , which was very white when it first came out and then developed a lovely flush of pink . |
| 8 | Yes , yes , and our door was squiffy when it first arrived . |
| 9 | She says that the bird was sick when it first hatched , so she nursed it ; now it thinks she 's it 's mother . |
| 10 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |
| 11 | in the fifties when it first started and how |
| 12 | Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach ( Hamlyn , 1978 ) was revolutionary when it first came out , with its detailed look at what it means to be fat and thin in our society , and to each of us individually . |
| 13 | Although Labour 's defeat was crushing ( its share of the vote dropped by almost 13 percentage points ) , the National Party victory was less decisive than it first appeared . |
| 14 | But it is not surprising that it first arose in what history has called ‘ the Hungry Forties ’ . |
| 15 | But it was strange when it first began . |
| 16 | Platinum first reached Europe in the wake of Spanish colonial enterprise , but it was not until 1741 that it first reached England . |