Example sentences of "had [verb] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had conquered first Aix , then Paris . |
| 2 | Of course , it was a good toss to win and things might have been different if England had batted first . |
| 3 | Miss Gabriel , who had given First Aid instruction during the Great War , invited the crippled inmates out to tea ‘ in connection with the Guild of the Brave Poor Things ’ . |
| 4 | Only these two , both mares , from a field of 34 , went clear in the first round and then Raymakers , who had scored earlier in the day on Rinnetou , had to go first against the clock . |
| 5 | She had no idea how to proceed during the ceremony and was relieved that a man had to go first . |
| 6 | At first she had travelled first class and stayed in only the best hotels , but McKenna had found her with no trouble at all . |
| 7 | She fell as Lucifer , the ancient dragon , had fallen first , long long ago before the creation of the world . |
| 8 | LITTLE Philip Carter ripped open the letter telling him he had won first prize in the Mirror 's WWF wrestling competition … and burst into tears . |
| 9 | He had won first prize at the eisteddfod as a boy soprano . |
| 10 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |
| 11 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 12 | The book caused Robert Blatchford , editor of the socialist newspaper The Clarion , to write to Mr Carpenter in some concern : economic change had to come first , said Mr Blatchford , and it would therefore be better not to mention sex until after socialism had been achieved . |
| 13 | I wondered which had come first , the chill and disenchantment of her worldly sophistication , or the lack of warmth in her son : and perhaps there was ice in both of them , and the one had reinforced the other . |
| 14 | Willie was glad that he had come first . |
| 15 | I had come first in our exams and tests . |
| 16 | Her father had loved her , but her mother had come first , as was only right , and , under her seeming indifference , her mother had loved and relied on her husband . |
| 17 | The NSF had come first in 28 counties , the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania ( HDUR ) in six , the Democratic Convention in five and the Romanian National Unity Party in one . |
| 18 | But Rosie had come first , and real people mattered more than fantasies . |
| 19 | There was jubilation that a local team had come first . |
| 20 | Buck had to putt first . |
| 21 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 22 | Afterwards she was never sure what she had noticed first : Teodor 's enormous size , loud voice , even louder laugh , or Sophie 's nearly equal bulk , plump , cushionlike . |
| 23 | He fell back , but the other man , the one I had seen first , came running forward . |
| 24 | It was decided that Wordsworth should write the first book or canto of the tale , Coleridge the second , ‘ and which ever had done first , was to set about the third ’ . |
| 25 | The boy repeated none of the simple errors he had made first time round . |
| 26 | Michael Lee was well used to Katherine 's preference for darkened rooms ; when had had first started work for her , he had done some research and discovered that when she had operated in Dublin , she had never appeared in public during the daylight hours and always met her business associates in darkened rooms , where she was known only as Madam Kitten . |
| 27 | I had got first prize for guitar at the Melody Maker contest and soon I was selling stories and now I find my principal interest is still p H. |
| 28 | Des , having opted for safety , had to play first . |
| 29 | They already had a lock on the number Zack had used first , but when he changed booths , even though the kiosks were side-by-side in Dunstable , they lost him . |
| 30 | The Jacobites had drawn first blood and totally defeated a regular force sent against them . |