Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 2 | I had become quite skilled with harees , that glutinous porridge of lamb and cracked wheat which I had met at my first meal bedu style . |
| 3 | I had arrived for my first meeting with the North Downs Steam Railway which is managed by a friendly group of enthusiasts who are not prepared to be put off by a drop of rain , even if it was one of the heaviest storms of the summer . |
| 4 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 5 | However , now I have listened to their first Phonogram-fuelled '60s Baggle Taggle on vinyl , I discover that I ca n't even be arsed to find out where they live . |
| 6 | She was also prone to frequent and severe migraine headaches , and she had a wheezy chest which had led to her first asthma attack which worried her greatly . |
| 7 | Her confidence , which had returned on her first view of the house , once more ebbed . |
| 8 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 9 | Cos she , she 'd gone to you first and she , and she came along , she said erm Ann 's not in , she said I 've come down to see you both . |
| 10 | What you 've said in your first paragraph is absolutely correct , stop . |
| 11 | I mean , well if you have n't got gauze in your first aid box , but you could have something like a Mediwipe or you might be able to use , open up your bandage and you can use , you know , several pieces of this , just keep going down the bandage and then you know clean it and get rid of that bit , okay , another clean bit okay , so you can adapt with whatever you 've got in your first aid box , yes , and you wo n't necessarily have scissors to hand so you 'll have to do whatever you 've got and the little Mediwipes are very useful for that , but do n't use one Mediwipe for seventy five grazes , okay , one Mediwipe for one wipe and then discard , okay ? |
| 12 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 13 | Her ring at the doorbell was answered by the woman she had seen on her first visit — the one who had spoken a little English . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’ |
| 15 | She opened the door and was surprised to find him holding the jodhpurs she had worn during her first ride . |
| 16 | She led her downstairs along a corridor she had explored on her first day and indicated a door at the far end . |
| 17 | As she had learned on her first night there , Moorlake was noisy at night . |
| 18 | Ellie recovered her composure and understood perfectly well what Madame meant once she had tried on her first set of crepe de Chine camiknickers . |
| 19 | THE FORM book proved a poor guide yesterday when Napoli , who stumbled into the UEFA Cup 's second round in midweek on penalties , won 3-0 against Milan , who had breezed through their first defence of the European Cup , writes Phil Shaw . |
| 20 | This was the same island we had visited on my first trip . |
| 21 | Thornton was trying to hijack their project — the baby they had nursed to its first hesitant steps . |
| 22 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 23 | These older cells undergo a second migration and give rise to a variety of cell types quite alien to the site at which they had arrived in their first migration , suggesting that there is a mixed population of cells at each site at the end of migration and the conditions at each site favour the growth and differentiation of specific members of the mixed population ; the others fail to flourish and presumably die . |
| 24 | He rubbed it between his fingers , staring with admiration , then sank , cross-legged , near my chair , the way he 'd done on his first night . |
| 25 | It might even be something that Creed already understood , that he 'd divined on their first meeting in the Mortlake office . |
| 26 | It was advertising mail , like most of that which he 'd opened on his first visit and later burned in the forest . |
| 27 | Then , after a couple more weeks , that strange phenomenon appeared , just as it had appeared after his first two weeks of basic training with the Royal Army Service Corp . |
| 28 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 29 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |
| 30 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |