Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This could also be entitled Stop Press , for it occurred after I had sent the first draft to the Hon. |
| 5 | Er on appointment , like other recruits , I had to serve the first month on night duty . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had fulfilled the first part of the scenario . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Ay , ’ rejoined Mrs Beattie , realising she had lost the first round , ‘ I was just on my wey up to see Thomasina . ’ |
| 12 | When she told Hawk of her dream , he told her she had reached the First Level . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She worked steadily on , until she had finished the first coat . |
| 15 | She had entered the first forest . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now that she had taken the first steps , she was not so much afraid . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | However , by the time we had spotted the first speck through our high-powered binoculars , the vulture was already descending . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game . |
| 22 | They had reached the first landing when Constance stopped . |
| 23 | All those who said they had had the first operation had an appropriate scar and ab absent gall bladder on ultrasonography . |
| 24 | They had taken the first step but now it was the stream and not they which determined where they should go and what should happen to them . |
| 25 | On top of that there was the slovenly , almost token , way they had drawn the first covert . |
| 26 | Paul Ware scored the goal which won the Autoglass Trophy Southern Area final for Stoke after they had drawn the first leg against Peterborough 3–3 . |
| 27 | They had started the first course without her . |
| 28 | The election of Mamaloni as Prime Minister in March 1989 , following emergence from the February 1989 general election as the largest single party [ see pp. 36465 ; 36526 ] had been widely perceived as the beginning of a new era in that it had provided the first instance of single-party government since independence in 1978 . |
| 29 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 30 | He had lost the first action in 1926 , failed on appeal and finally won the action in 1934 . |