Example sentences of "she had first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a just over a week since she had first set foot on the Dorset coast path . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 7 | He was the blond man she had first seen when she opened her eyes under the tree . |
| 8 | Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her . |
| 9 | ( I would point out at this stage that I would never begin to treat a patient with physical symptoms of this sort unless he or she had first consulted their doctor and was able to tell me that no physical cause for the problem could be found . ) |
| 10 | The play in which she had first appeared was still running ; its clumsy comedy appealed to the audiences who came here . |
| 11 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |
| 12 | It was on a similar mission seven months earlier that she had first met Darren . |
| 13 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 14 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 15 | When she had first plied her trade as a child prostitute , she had always been embarrassed by their silent knowing stares . |
| 16 | Here she had first met Ion Manescu who had taken her under his wing — she was an invaluable conduit as to what was going on in Moscow and sympathetic to the Romanian régime . |
| 17 | That patch had slowly become an image of despair and frustration over many occasions since she had first shared his bed . |
| 18 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 19 | It was still as gloomy as the day on which she had first seen it and she longed to transform it into a place of splendid elegance . |
| 20 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 21 | His breath smelt of the black pickled olives she had first tasted on the voyage from Dingle . |
| 22 | Flavia , looking from an upper window , saw it , saw it on the exact spot where she had first seen Michel , experienced confusion , incredulous joy , a pang . |
| 23 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 24 | As she stretched out an arm to switch off the light she saw , on the marble-topped bedside table , the book which had been open on the bedcover when she had first visited the house . |
| 25 | She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit . |
| 26 | For this purpose she was admitted to a specialist residential unit for children and adolescents under the care of Dr. M. , a consultant psychiatrist whom she had first met when she had been referred to the family consultation clinic in 1987 . |
| 27 | She made a mild attempt to evade him but he cut across and landed in front of her , sitting , as she had first seen him , with the sheep and goats dithering and teetering before and around him . |
| 28 | By the time the crème brulée was served , she realized that James was n't the gentle , sensitive , vulnerable charmer that she had first imagined but a crashing bore . |
| 29 | She was almost sure that if somebody had asked her about all this business when she had first woken in the back of the vehicle , she could , despite her pain and discomfort , have replied . |
| 30 | She found the wrecker 's yard down an alley just behind the station , about an hour and a half after she had first arrived there on the train . |