Sentence examples for i first learnt from inspiring English sources

I first learnt about Japan's yakuza when I started reporting on organised crime for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, in 1994.

After all, it was in RE, not history, where I first learnt the principles underpinning Gandhi's struggles and Martin Luther King's protests.

LaCucaracha, who always liked the Gracchi, said: "When I first learnt of their fate as a teenager, it was the first time I realised people have always been assholes".

If politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose, Brown spoke in country and western, Johnny Cash doing old gospel numbers, referring to Washington as a "shining city upon the hill" or talking of "something I first learnt as a child in my father's church".

"Although Deal Or No Deal was nerve-wracking, because it's a big thing to win that kind of money, it's a totally different thing to racing, which I've basically been preparing for since I first learnt to swim," said Hewison.

When I first learnt about this," she says, "I was honestly horrified — the mere thought that human beings would set about creating machines that they can set loose to kill other human beings, I find repulsive".

First learnt of your kidney problem?

BBC reporter Andrew North visited Shivaji Park, where Tendulkar first learnt how to play cricket.

Starbucks is planning to change the way it allocates its costs for tax purposes in a way that should see it paying corporation tax in the UK for almost the first time, I have learnt.

This freaked me out at first but is, I have learnt, apparently perfectly normal behaviour.

Everything I have learnt I have learnt from the boss".