Example sentences of "had [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kurd , whom she had expected to flee at the first shaking of the ground , was staying with them . |
| 2 | Beijing University students fifty years before had dared to protest against the first Japanese invasion and Chiang Kaishek 's apparent complicity in their designs in what become known as the ‘ December Ninth ’ movement . |
| 3 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 4 | On Oct. 24 a list was published of 24 banks which had agreed to participate in the first level of syndication of a US$5,000 million loan to the Kuwaiti government . |
| 5 | When I came back from Bletchley , I had agreed to tutor for the First Ordinary English class at Edinburgh University a Polish woman considerably older than myself . |
| 6 | Amanda , of Chadwell Heath , Essex , had hoped to slim before the first wedding . |
| 7 | Launching International Literacy Year 1990 , UNESCO Director General said that the absolute number of illiterates had begun to decline for the first time in history . |
| 8 | It was asked , when the estate had been entered in accordance with the second will , whether the debtors who had been released in the first will could secure that they should be released even from debt which they had begun to owe after the first will , and if , should the heirs try to sue for it , they could be debarred by a defence of bad faith . |
| 9 | Joseph 's melancholy had begun to evaporate for the first time since leaving the hunting camp as the goateed mandarin , walking ponderously beside him in ceremonial boots , reeled off the mystical-sounding names of the shimmering buildings : the Can-Chanh , the Great Mansion the Palace of the Spirits of the Six Emperors … the Temple of Generations … the Halls of the Splendours and the Moon and the Glory of the Sun — and most mysterious of all to his young impressionable mind , the guarded heart of the citadel , the Tu Cam Thanh , the Purple Forbidden City named after the Purple or Pole Star , the symbolic ruler of the heavens . |
| 10 | David Evans , the stand-off who plays centre for Wales , and Andrew Booth , his scrum-half partner , virtually sealed the result in the second half simply by appreciating what the Newport pair , David Phillips and Nigel Callard , had failed to grasp in the first — that kicking downwind is as good a way as any of gaining huge chunks of ground to keep the pressure on . |