Example sentences of "after [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They played together a couple of evenings every month , but after that first time by mutual consent they never made love in her house , any more than they did in his . |
| 2 | They had re-met , after that first encounter at Althorp , at Sandringham in January 1979 , when the Queen had invited Diana and her sister Sarah ( whose relationship with the Prince was well and truly over ) for a weekend 's shooting . |
| 3 | Louis Littman did buy Ashley Chase , after that first visit in 1966 , and realized his childhood dream of owning and running the ideal estate . |
| 4 | She had n't complained about pain after that first night when she insisted on moving in and living with him permanently . |
| 5 | On the morning after that first sexual experience we walked after breakfast up the street , past gossiping garden gates and twitching lace curtains to the fields at the top . |
| 6 | In Exodus 19 , after that first series of complaint stories , the people arrive at Sinai , the Mountain of God , and the rest of the material between there and Numbers 11 , including the whole of the book of Leviticus , is concerned with the giving of the torah , God 's instructions to his people . |
| 7 | After that first round of 75 , on which Ballesteros blamed his putting , this was a distinct improvement and so was Olazabal 's 69 , though one would hardly have known it . |
| 8 | After that first success Cook organized many more trips in the cause of temperance , but in 1845 he put his organizational skills to wider use and profit by arranging a public excursion to Liverpool . |
| 9 | He had loved that girl from afar after that first incident , but she had been too full of fun and the love of life to worry about boyfriends . |
| 10 | He had died , thankfully — Parker had almost clapped his hands — shortly after that first black eye . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't remember anything clearly after that first dance , ’ she said . |
| 12 | We will want our fauna to enjoy his fall ( well , at least after that first moment of terror ! ) and eventual arrival on terra firma must be reasonably safe and soft . |
| 13 | The morning after that first night they bathed together , laughing at their own bodies and the world . |
| 14 | After that first tour of her new home , Eileen had avoided going into the kitchen as much as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ The Queen Mother was always my favourite after that first invitation to play before her , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ They corresponded regularly after that first meeting . |
| 17 | Again , after that first superficial cut , I do n't think one can rule it out . |
| 18 | Perhaps this was only because he had never had reason to he until he met Mr Evans , but he was n't afraid of him , even after that first , dreadful night , because Mr Evans had false teeth that clicked when he talked . |
| 19 | After that first one in The Crown and Sceptre kitchen , Chris took the chair more or less every week for the next three years . |
| 20 | What happened whilst you were on holiday after that first few days off , the guy rang me up and said , hey some of your staff have been down er say saying we 've got an urgent service that you can have in two hours . |
| 21 | He 'd been sent to escort her back after that first long-ago attempt to cross the border ; and with that , it had begun . |
| 22 | He sent her a copy of Madame Bovary ( she thanked him , pronounced the novel ‘ hideous ’ , and quoted at him Philip James Bailey , author of Festus , on the writer 's duty to give moral instruction to the reader ) ; and forty years after that first meeting in Trouville she came to visit him at Croisset . |
| 23 | But one day , after that first programme , some friends from Halifax arrived with a little black and white Border collie pup , so small he could only just manage to get over the doorstep . |
| 24 | God knows , she needed it , considering her obvious distress after that first night . |
| 25 | I remember after that first night at the Hall he said there was something unnerving about you . ’ |
| 26 | For ten days after that first sighting from the top of the Turkman Gate , I trawled the teeming alleys of Old Delhi , trying to identify the houses of the eunuchs and attempting to persuade one of them to talk to me . |
| 27 | Rather , after that first heart-clenching moment when she saw him — so tall , so incredibly right in formal dress — she felt more wretched than ever : he was merely as courteous as the occasion demanded . |
| 28 | After that first night , Herbert Kretzmer wrote in the Daily Express : |
| 29 | Even knowing she looked ridiculous , she 'd enjoyed it after that first entrance , had loved being on a stage again , singing with the company . |
| 30 | After that first shock of entry she had offered herself without shame , but Marc had slowed , holding her wildness in check , and with a hoarse , inquisitorial , ‘ Sarella ? ’ had tried to hold them back upon their course . |