Example sentences of "[adj] when [pron] first [verb] " 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 | Misty-eyed when he first appeared he looked practically fog-bound during the closing numbers . |
| 3 | In reality , the mechanics went wrong when he first appeared and shot him into the air , out of sight . |
| 4 | The view taken here is that parents may not be able to cope , and certainly they will feel this when they first discover that their child is handicapped . |
| 5 | It proved this when it first came out way back in ‘ 85 . |
| 6 | This when you first started killing |
| 7 | Dawn was younger than this when I first had her . ( ) |
| 8 | Charles Darwin , perhaps the greatest field naturalist of all time , was impressed by this when he first encountered the tropics during his journey in HMS Beagle in the 1830s . |
| 9 | I was afraid when I first went because I thought that people who go to prison , they 're bad . |
| 10 | ‘ I was doubtful when I first had the idea , but Margaret has no cousins or … ’ |
| 11 | There are all sorts of options for how people can respond to one another when they first meet . |
| 12 | Erm he 's about seven , but I 'm not sure how old when I first had him , cos he 's a stray , a stray . |
| 13 | She could not have been very old when I first knew her , but I thought of her as old , partly because her hair was pure white . |
| 14 | The International Stadium was five years old when I first arrived . |
| 15 | Balbinder was 3 years old when I first started visiting the house , a very sociable child who eagerly awaited my arrival and the chance to play with the bag of toys I always brought with me . |
| 16 | I was gon na say it can be quite laboured when you first read some of it |
| 17 | ‘ It 'll be better for me to ride him first , as he 's always a bit frisky when he first starts out , ’ Angela told Cheryl when she returned . |
| 18 | I was very nervous when I first went ; but I soon got used to it . |
| 19 | It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it . |
| 20 | I was disgusted when I first heard my voice |
| 21 | The operation of this 3% in three year rule is likely to be unduly restrictive when it first applies because of the expected need to grant substantial new options to sharesave scheme participants and at the same time allow for the first allocations under the proposed executive share option scheme . |
| 22 | She had been relieved when he first appeared in it ; it was bright blue striped with red , expensive , obviously new , a reassuring sign that the mother she had never met and of whom he never spoke , tried to take good care of him . |
| 23 | ‘ I was thrilled when I first heard the Trumpet Hornpipe tune being used on Pugwash , ’ says Edmondson . |
| 24 | ‘ If only I 'd been a bit more sophisticated when we first got married . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Yes , yes , and our door was squiffy when it first arrived . |
| 27 | She says that the bird was sick when it first hatched , so she nursed it ; now it thinks she 's it 's mother . |
| 28 | Ballantyne 's boys were very soft when they first saw the pig because they did not want to disturb it when it was sleeping . |
| 29 | Only it was very pretty when I first bought it . |
| 30 | ‘ We were very lucky when we first came over , ’ acknowledges Niall with a hearty slug of purified H 2 O. ‘ We did n't know what was going on in London , we were just here at the right time to entertain everyone . |