Example sentences of "[subord] i first come [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first came across Ritwik Ghatak 's films about ten years ago , I was puzzled . |
| 2 | When I first came across him in 1982 he was playing for Exeter University in a sevens game at Twickenham . |
| 3 | When I first came across this text my mind went to the Athanasian Creed which describes the Godhead as uncreated , infinite , eternal and incomprehensible . |
| 4 | When I first came across Szasz 's dictum , ‘ Mental illness is a self-enhancing deception , self-promoting strategy ’ , I considered it to be a harsh judgement on a suffering fellow-creature . |
| 5 | When I first came across it , I applauded the honest rigour with which Auden the critic revised Auden the poet . |
| 6 | When I first came to Tioman 10 years ago , the hotel was an intimate place of 70 rooms . |
| 7 | WHEN I FIRST came to New Zealand in May 1991 , I was unaware of the profound effect the country would have upon me . |
| 8 | When I first came to Shieldaig , I walked the twelve miles from Lochcarron in the south , on the only road giving access to the village , a road badly rutted and offering no invitation to wheels and , indeed , no vehicles passed me . |
| 9 | When I first came to the Commission , cases like these caused more anxiety and provoked more anger and complaint than any others we dealt with . |
| 10 | When I first came to the group , I was very much in the Tarzan role . |
| 11 | When I first came to this room , I did n't like it , then I thought , ‘ Well at least it 's mine . |
| 12 | Twenty one ye Nineteen twenty one when I first came to . |
| 13 | When I first came to Slumptown which is twenty-one years ago , this street was one of the quietest streets in Slumptown . |
| 14 | When I first came to England with your father , I was shocked at the women 's laziness here . |
| 15 | ‘ You helped me buy the land for the new town when I first came to Haiti . |
| 16 | When I first came to New York even a traffic jam was interesting . |
| 17 | In seventy one when I first came to Westminster , I was introduced to pairing . |
| 18 | And er when I first came to the shop , the mo m A lot of them used to come by train and you know taxis or meeting and at the station and and away from Holyhead they used to stop by the shop for fruit . |
| 19 | I did n't like this town when I first came to it , and … and I must whisper this , I did n't care much for him either , for his deaf-aid makes him believe that everybody else is deaf . ’ |
| 20 | When I first came to the region I had thoughts of using a bike for a lot of short travelling . |
| 21 | And one of the things that is happening and mortified when I first came to this company was I could n't see a straight line through . |
| 22 | He recalls : ‘ I had a bad name when I first came into the league because I skated round trying to hit as many Canadians as possible to get myself noticed . |
| 23 | I remembered the way I had gone crazy when I first came into the Star Zoo . |
| 24 | Indeed , I recall the experiences of the person who was Prime Minister when I first came into this House — Mr. Harold Macmillan . |
| 25 | ‘ When I first come to Paris in 1979 I am desperately lonely . |