Example sentences of "first [vb past] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frith made all the animals and birds , but when he first made them they were all the same . |
| 2 | Lord , when I first met her she was exquisite . |
| 3 | When I first met them they had hardly ever granted interviews for the purpose of making any disclosures about their background . |
| 4 | ‘ When I first met him he thought I was mad because I did n't eat meat . |
| 5 | When I first met him he was just an averagely quiet spoken , fairly intelligent hippie and gradually , the perversity and debauchery crept in . |
| 6 | When Minton first met him he had already discovered Soho and , whilst telling his opera-singer mother that he was off to the Science Museum , would take the tube to Tottenham Court Road to wash dishes in the Budapest run by Victor Sassie ( later the proprietor of the Gay Hussar ) . |
| 7 | Mrs Fermor-Hesketh said when she first met him she thought he was ‘ dotty , loud and pompous but relatively harmless ’ . |
| 8 | When I first met him it was really curly you know , and I |
| 9 | When I first met him I told everyone how marvellous he was . |
| 10 | ‘ When I first met you you never lost your temper , ’ he commented softly . |
| 11 | You looked a bit like that when I first met you you know and I thought oh he 's terri he 's terribly fat there . |
| 12 | When I first started to smoke a cigarette , I felt ill but I kept on because everyone else was doing it , but with sniffing glue when I first tried it I enjoyed it , it 's something I did enjoy , that 's the reason I started anyway . ’ |
| 13 | Jane said that last week , cos I thought it was a disco , cos when it first described it me , it was real crap , and there was this colour guy and his friend , and all they wanted to play was black , they looked like they got no bones when they were dancing . |
| 14 | The first told him he was irrational , that the obsession was dangerous . |
| 15 | Goodness knows how many years ago , when you first told me you were going to marry Madeleine , I warned you that the gentry do n't marry working-class folk . |
| 16 | She first noted what she calls a ‘ plague mentality ’ enveloping discussion of Aids in 1984 , and conceived the Masque of the Red Death trilogy of albums ( completed in 1988 ) and the Plague Mass as a dramatic revenge on the inaction or malice of those in government and the church — or among the ‘ decent people ’ who were propagating the idea that a biomedical condition was a moral verdict . |
| 17 | I think it was René Descartes who first formulated what I have called ‘ the heat-pain argument ’ . |
| 18 | Cos when he first hit him he went had . |
| 19 | When he first recorded it he was n't that keen . |
| 20 | When I first knew him he had spoken with a beautiful , accented Welsh voice ; now the lilt was gone and he talked flatly , like a Londoner . |
| 21 | She dressed him in Viyella shirts and cords ; when I first knew him he was haphazard Oxfam , sometimes a dinner suit , sometimes torn overalls . |
| 22 | Yet when he first saw me it was definitely scary … |
| 23 | ‘ When I first saw her I thought ‘ What on earth is that ? ’ ’ |
| 24 | ‘ When I first saw them I thought they were costermongers with their black and white trousers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When I first saw him I could n't believe my eyes — he was dressed from head to toe in khaki . |
| 28 | ‘ When I first saw him I thought he was dead . |
| 29 | when I first saw him I thought he was in his fifties |
| 30 | Because when they first saw us we was eve everything from the the D H S , to the police , to the probation office . |