Example sentences of "[that] [pron] first [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might be interested to know that I first learnt of CPRW while rummaging through old papers left by the Misses Keating — and there were many ! |
| 2 | It was in 1924 when I was fourteen that I first went to work for Mrs Field . |
| 3 | It was when I got back to my new room there that I first came across my new neighbours , Jane and Mark Walsh , and their two children , Sonja and Darren . |
| 4 | It was during my first year at university that I first came across it in a book by James Tyler Kent in a public library . |
| 5 | It was at one of their conferences that I first came across organized lesbians and gays . |
| 6 | It was not , however , of learned matters that she first wrote to Lewis but of science fiction . |
| 7 | She revealed that she first learnt of the threatened closure while her daughter was fighting for life . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | There is reason to suppose that neither of his collections of legal opinions ( digesta and responsa ) was published during his lifetime , and that they first appeared after the death of Ulpian , in the epi-classical period . |
| 10 | But it is not surprising that it first arose in what history has called ‘ the Hungry Forties ’ . |
| 11 | Nova Bio-medical has updated its series of ISE based electrolyte analysers that it first launched in 1977 . |
| 12 | So the increased interest in fitness may not be the healthy trend that it first appeared to be . |
| 13 | His first-class debut was for the Minor Counties against Oxford University in 1939 , but it was not until 1947 that he first played for Surrey , as an aggressive fast-medium bowler , who also liked to give the ball a good whack when batting . |
| 14 | By 1917 , the year that he first came into contact with Sartre , the very year that Lenin was establishing a new revolutionary Soviet state , three years before the birth of the French communist party , this future activist of the French Left was in the throes of a major personal crisis brought about by the demise of his father . |
| 15 | It was at this time that he first came across some Nonconformist pastors from Shrewsbury and was deeply impressed and helped by the ‘ fervent prayers , godly conversation and holiness ’ of their lives . |
| 16 | The song ‘ You are my Heart 's Delight ’ from Lehár 's operetta The Land of Smiles ( 1929 ) was one of his most famous , and it was in this work that he first came to England in 1931 . |
| 17 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 18 | Denis Brailsford , an inter-war spectator and a distinguished sports historian , recalled that he first went to football in the 1930s as part of his father 's extended family of miners and their wives , who made up the core of a group that regularly went to Mansfield Town 's home games . |
| 19 | As it turned out , Mario was n't allowed to race at Monza because he 'd driven a dirt-track race within the previous twenty-four hours , and it was n't until Watkins Glen at the end of 1968 that he first drove in a FI race . |