Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [pron] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
4 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
5 | If the CBSO strings failed to assert themselves strongly enough in the overall balance at certain crucial points in the first movement , they certainly approached the textural problems of the adagio with great sensitivity and , when it came to them , phrased the main theme as eloquently as the clarinet had done on its first appearance . |
6 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
7 | ‘ Stop messing about , ’ Rosie had said at his first attempt . |
8 | This was the same island we had visited on my first trip . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | She opened the door and was surprised to find him holding the jodhpurs she had worn during her first ride . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Salt had recovered from her first surprise and was about to launch into a longer attack . |
15 | The monastery 's right to Pallas was challenged by the Lady Garsinde , wife of Bernard le Velu , who declared that the estate had belonged to her first husband Raymond , from whom count Raymond III had taken it by force . |
16 | Theda almost burst into tears , as she recalled Benedict 's endearing name for her that had stuck from their first meeting . |
17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
18 | 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 . |
19 | It had n't been so wet earlier , when Benny had left for her first day at college . |
20 | As she had learned on her first night there , Moorlake was noisy at night . |
21 | Ellie recovered her composure and understood perfectly well what Madame meant once she had tried on her first set of crepe de Chine camiknickers . |
22 | Not everyone admires the Drunken Poet(s) scene : a ‘ miniature comic drama ’ , ‘ an amusing introduction to the freakish yet lyrical world of the play , [ though ] it possibly blunts the effect of what Purcell had planned as his first scene , the masque at the end of Act II ’ ; ‘ the scene badly disfigures the drama … it is dramatically incongruous and is introduced clumsily ’ ' It might help to know where it came from . |
23 | She led her downstairs along a corridor she had explored on her first day and indicated a door at the far end . |
24 | Her confidence , which had returned on her first view of the house , once more ebbed . |
25 | Despite all the fraternal banqueting , Khrushchev had returned from his first visit to Peking in 1954 and told his colleagues ‘ Conflict with China is inevitable . ’ |