Example sentences of "[pers pn] had first " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu . |
| 2 | So the problem is greater than I had first thought . |
| 3 | Until six weeks ago I had first class service , then , suddenly , the crankshaft snapped . |
| 4 | It was in those days , then , prompted by my natural admiration for the lady , that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment . |
| 5 | Miss Kenton was still standing out in the hall where I had first spotted her . |
| 6 | I had first met Olive Kerr on a visit to Los Angeles in 1938 ; she and her sister moved freely within the circle of ‘ the British colony ’ in Hollywood . |
| 7 | Actually , I had first met Bernal in 1940 . |
| 8 | When I had first arrived I had seen a couple of press people milling around , but now there seemed to be a whole platoon of them , cameras at the ready . |
| 9 | ‘ This might be a lot more tricky than I had first supposed . |
| 10 | I had first seen her in the desert when I went for my first ‘ bedu ’ breakfast and the prospective bridegroom 's brother had played fox in the hen coop . |
| 11 | I had first spied King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV , GCVO , GCMG , KBE , sitting in the royal box in church at Sunday service the week before . |
| 12 | It is a far more complex matter than I had first thought ’ . |
| 13 | I had first seen it on out Skerries during spring migration . |
| 14 | I end up in exactly the same spot as if I had first walked four paces due east ( which is one sort of displacement , an easterly sort ) and then three paces due north ( which is another sort of displacement , a northerly sort ) . |
| 15 | The Spartan asceticism in the attic as I had first experienced it was giving way to small comforts . |
| 16 | I wanted to revisit the place where I had first caught sight of Jean-Claude years ago . |
| 17 | I remembered that when I had first come to live with Jean-Claude , I had learnt to hear him thinking , and how I had not lost this gift but came to enjoy the sound of his inner voice much less . |
| 18 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 19 | Some days later a strange black thing was seen on the beach where I had first arrived in Lilliput . |
| 20 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 21 | She had the face I had first seen in the music-room door : both amused and conspiratorial , and now appealing as well . |
| 22 | When I had first heard of my appointment to Stornoway I had been elated at the prospect of leaving a somewhat dull routine existence down south . |
| 23 | I though of Poppy and was surprised to find that the fever that had raged in my blood since I had first seen her was n't there any more . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 25 | When I had first read The Idea of a Christian Society , I was at once struck by the compatibility of some of Hardy 's remarks on the role and function of the Anglican Church with Eliot 's own views . |
| 26 | It was a just over a week since she had first set foot on the Dorset coast path . |
| 27 | If she did , she thought with a flash of venom , she would coax her step-father back into the woodshed where she had first had it . |
| 28 | Golden Girl had cleared the rocks on which she had first grounded , the wind slithering the lightened catamaran broadside across the sparse grasses sprouting from the leached sandy soil behind the ancient coastline . |
| 29 | She was particularly unlucky to be alone , for she had first married at 18 , but after losing a child had been left a childless widow at 25 . |
| 30 | Swathes of jasmine , loose from a prolifically flowering specimen on the edge of the house , occasionally fell over their railing , with their sweet scent , before Mrs Irving , clothed in her gardening gear of wellingtons and apron over the seated and threadbare tweed suit in which she had first enticed them in , came and bound these back . |