Example sentences of "first [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first arose out of the practice announced in Mr. Brittan 's statement of 30 November 1983 of seeking the views of the judiciary on the tariff for a prisoner when he had been detained in custody for about three years . |
| 2 | When they first met up on a ‘ Carry On ’ set a couple of years before no one knew how strong that love would be . |
| 3 | When The Clash first met up with beat poet Allen Ginsberg in '81 , Joe asked , ‘ Well Ginsberg , when you gon na run for president ? ’ |
| 4 | It was in order to reach the Bosporus in style and comfort that Georges Nagelmackers created the ‘ Orient Express ’ which first steamed out of the Gare de l'Est in Paris in 1883 , its passengers bound for Constantinople . |
| 5 | ‘ When I first got back to Melbourne , I said , ‘ Mum , I think I have to become a nun . |
| 6 | Royal insider on Diana WHEN I first got back to Melbourne I said : ‘ Mum , I think I have to become a nun . |
| 7 | In fact , I first found out about Owen because I was treating Bronwen and David for ‘ stress ’ . |
| 8 | Foxing was a term first used in about the 1840s , probably because the brownish-yellow spots and blotches reminded some fox-hunting bibliophile of his quarry in the countryside . |
| 9 | As a Russian-trained former officer in the Syrian Army , he had seemed to Donleavy a potentially useful source of background military and political intelligence from the moment Coleman first reported in about him . |
| 10 | For some reason she remembered how awful it was when she first moved in after their marriage . |
| 11 | XVT , which first surfaced back in 1989 , is probably the most mature of what is now a growing bunch of tools offering a single developers toolkit for multiple graphical user interfaces — competitors include Neuron Data 's Open Interface and Open Inc 's Aspect . |
| 12 | .. are ways of the earth spirit , not merely secular routes but natural channels of energy , first traced out by the creative gods , followed by the primeval wandering tribes and still in settled times used by religious processions or pilgrims to a shrine . |
| 13 | No oceanographer , when Balboa first strolled down to the gently lapping waters on the morning of that day , he had no reason to suppose that the ceremony — which would involve him standing ankle-deep in the water , the better to annex it — could not begin on schedule . |
| 14 | A century and a half later , of course , many new fossil discoveries and much critical analysis have greatly advanced our understanding of dinosaurs , although not to the extent that the controversy and emotion first stirred up by Owen has entirely abated . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's worked so hard at his game and he 's much more involved than when he first came over from France . ’ |
| 16 | The full power of trance possession first came through to me in Bali while watching the all-night shadow plays by the great dalangs , or puppet-masters , such as Madra . |
| 17 | Mr Fitton , backed by merchant banker Henry Ansbacher , first came up with the offer six weeks ago . |
| 18 | Cold fusion is the brainchild of Charles Frank , who first came up with the idea in 1947 . |
| 19 | And Mark S , as the one who first came up with the idea , what would you like to say about it ? |
| 20 | Later that year , when the writer was working on Loot , the idea first came up for the two of them to work together . |
| 21 | ‘ When I first came up from Balclutha , Hilda said what I needed first was a good wife but Jan here said what I needed first was a couple of good horses . ’ |
| 22 | It 's been a lot of hard work but I knew that it would be when I first came on to the Tour . |
| 23 | The appellant Christou first came in with Wright on 15 January 1991 . |
| 24 | When the call first came in from Fraxilly , I did n't accept it . |
| 25 | Maxim asked carefully : ‘ Did he see you before he went to the country , when he first came back from Germany ? ’ |
| 26 | When I first came out of hospital I did n't feel like going out . |
| 27 | when I first came out of college and I really appreciated it |
| 28 | When you first erm when you first came out on strike . |
| 29 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 30 | The cost was less than the price of an Amstrad PCW 8256 when it first came out onto the market all of those years ago . |