Example sentences of "[coord] when i first [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Where and when I first heard the names ‘ Rhine ’ or ‘ Danube ’ I can not now remember . |
2 | And when I first got an inkling the little was far worse than none , and I became melancholy and miserable . |
3 | Unfortunately it is a very barren group , and when I first went to the southern hemisphere I had difficulty in identifying the pole star , Sigma Octantis , which is only of magnitude 5.5 , and is none too easy to see with the naked eye unless the sky is really dark and clear . |
4 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
5 | And when I first went to the business , they did n't have fruit like they have now , everyday you know . |
6 | I was I was so angry and and I see him a out and about and when I first saw him about I could have I could have run him down . |
7 | I 'd been living away and when I first come back into the area a few of me friends was into it . |
8 | The problem is , they 've got this parametric EQ and when I first toured with it my guitar roadie could n't figure what was wrong , because it was cutting out and crackling . |
9 | and when I first moved up there I thought oh yeah , what 's happening , yeah . |
10 | They exchanged photographs before they met , but when I first saw him he looked years older and much fatter than in his photo and now it 's emerged that he 's 48 and divorced . |
11 | I found out next morning that his boat was in Halfway House , but when I first saw him I had no idea he was a Moila man , and it did n't occur to me that he would know the mooring there . |
12 | That may be so , but when I first knew them there had been radical changes . |
13 | But when I first knew him Gustave used to write frequently about my forthcoming visits to his house . |
14 | about Murdoch the Australian inverted commas because that his , he was , I mean when I first , I , I do n't know the man but when I first knew about him in Australia he was a he supported the Labour government 's election in in Australia . |
15 | But when I first bought it , they were all tiny leaves and all variegated . |
16 | And so er it it was a a reasonably good wage but when I first started of course I was n't on piece rate , you used to get a penny an hour , when we worked Saturday morning got about six and sixpence a week . |
17 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
18 | ‘ Homesickness only strikes occasionally now , but when I first arrived in February and setting up home here seemed so alien I was often mopey . ’ |