Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie . |
| 3 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
| 4 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 5 | When I 'd finished the first prayer and turned to face him , I saw that he was kneeling . |
| 6 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 7 | There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed . |
| 8 | When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove . |
| 9 | This could also be entitled Stop Press , for it occurred after I had sent the first draft to the Hon. |
| 10 | I had taken the first step when an elderly man touched my shoulder and asked in the lilting , Spanish-accented French of the region , if I wished to view the church . |
| 11 | ‘ You would n't think it so unexpected if you 'd seen the first nightclub I bought . ’ |
| 12 | She 'd tacked the first sketches for this picture up on the wall and they looked as if someone else had drawn them . |
| 13 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
| 14 | She had fulfilled the first part of the scenario . |
| 15 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 16 | She was n't scared , not even when she was half-way up the path , dark yews all around her , and heard the sound she had heard the first time . |
| 17 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 18 | ‘ Ay , ’ rejoined Mrs Beattie , realising she had lost the first round , ‘ I was just on my wey up to see Thomasina . ’ |
| 19 | When she told Hawk of her dream , he told her she had reached the First Level . |
| 20 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 21 | She worked steadily on , until she had finished the first coat . |
| 22 | She had entered the first forest . |
| 23 | She had learned when she had held the first costume up against her , that her mother had been small , hardly , it seemed , an inch or two taller than Ellie was now . |
| 24 | Now that she had taken the first steps , she was not so much afraid . |
| 25 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 26 | However , by the time we had spotted the first speck through our high-powered binoculars , the vulture was already descending . |
| 27 | Professor Andrew Lyne and two colleagues , Matthew Bailes and Setnam Shemar , astronomers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom , announced in the British science journal Nature of July 24 that they had made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system . |
| 28 | They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game . |
| 29 | They had reached the first landing when Constance stopped . |
| 30 | All those who said they had had the first operation had an appropriate scar and ab absent gall bladder on ultrasonography . |