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Example sentences for "first went"

  • I, recalling one of the two girls I had seen when I first went there.

  • Not a word was spoken when we first went in; and the Dutch clock by the dresser seemed, in the silence, to tick twice as loud as usual.

  • I first went to Althorp to offer him payment of a large debt I owe him, but he refused it very generously, and made me rich in a moment by so doing.

  • I first went to the Church of St. Catherine, to see Abbe Bernard, my friend, introduced by Mrs. Canning.

  • But he goes on: "When I first went to those desperate designes it cost me many a forgotten pound to hire men to go, and procrastination caused more run away than went.

  • When I first went to reside in London, in 1829, I often visited the British Museum.

  • I first went to see my friend Edward Tootal, who had given me so kind a reception in 1830.

  • We first went to the house of David Wilkie, in Church Street, Kensington.

  • When he first went to Newstead, on his arrival from Aberdeen, he planted, it seems, a young oak in some part of the grounds, and had an idea that as it flourished so should he.

  • I remember being told, when I first went to Petrograd, "We usually have your bad weather here about eight or ten days after you, only we have it worse.

  • Sabloff, when I first went to Petrograd, what great importance Peter attached to this office when he constituted the Holy Synod in 1721 to take the place of the Patriarchate.

  • If I could have got protection when I first went out to the fire, we could have kept the other cars from burning.

  • When I first went up there, in the morning, I saw a great many I knew, railroad men, but they were all quiet and orderly.

  • The vice president, the first vice president, General McCullough, was the man to whom I first went.

  • When I first went there, probably, it was four o'clock.

  • When I first went in between two cars to make a coupling, I thought my time had come for sure.

  • Fort 9 for a few months when we first went there, but some of the prisoners had known him when he had been in command of another camp, and he then had the reputation for being a kindly and sympathetic commandant.

  • I know that when I first went to Ingolstadt they had some scheme on for tunneling out of the inner court through the rampart so as to come out half-way up the bank above the moat on the south side.

  • When I first went to Ingolstadt there were three Appells a day--at 7 a.

  • First went a body of the Abati notables on horseback, forming a long line of colour and glittering steel, who chattered as they rode, for they seemed to have no idea of discipline.

  • When we first went to the Land of the Lion and the Sun, carriages were very scarce and very expensive south of Teheran.

  • When we first went to Kerman I was told that I must on no account ride through the bazaars, as no Englishwoman had ever been seen in them.

  • Let me state that we first went to Dedham and stayed some weeks.

  • Which reminds me that about the time when I first went to college, but while staying at Congress Hall, I there met a youth from Alabama or Mississippi, who was on his way to Princeton to join our ranks.

  • He has been my friend ever since I first went to Springfield.

  • He has been a merchant in that town ever since I first went there, and was engaged in business some years before that, I believe.

  • His father was living when I first went to Springfield, and was a very refined, cultivated, elegant Eastern gentleman.

  • We first went to the market, to obtain provisions for the ship.

  • We first went to an inn--a meson, as it was called.

  • When we first went to the inn, we saw a large party on horseback just setting out, we understood, in the same direction.

  • When we first went in we saw that it was not a church; but we did not know but that it might be some sort of camp meeting.

  • There were so many pillars to keep up this roof, that, when we first went in, we could not see any end to the church at all.

  • I could not see much of the inside of the church when we first went in, there were so many columns; but I could hear the birds flying about and singing away up high among the vaults and arches.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both feet; coon hunt; easily grown; first appeared; first arrival; first attempt; first born; first coming; first course; first down; first edition; first expedition; first found; first gentleman; first importance; first impressions; first introduced; first necessary; first principle; first sight; first view; first violin; political character; rather deep; shall feed; turned toward