Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 2 | He had already scored in the first meeting at Roker Park . |
| 3 | Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place . |
| 4 | John Charlton had not moved since the first encounter . |
| 5 | The membership of the Commission comprised four members from each of Greece and Turkey , and three members from States that had not participated in the First World War . |
| 6 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |
| 7 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 8 | She had wanted to draw again , and to paint , and she had not wondered before the first class as to the group she would be joining . |
| 9 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 10 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 11 | Only Sidey had ever played in the first team . |
| 12 | The only consolation was that Newcastle and Sheffield Wednesday , whom he had predicted would still be in the Cup along with Arsenal , had also fallen at the first hurdle to lesser teams . |
| 13 | They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl . |
| 14 | Either way , she was looking forward to putting their plans into action with a relish she had n't felt since the first heady moment of signing the lease . |
| 15 | Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her . |
| 16 | Charles had completely forgotten about the first entrance of McWhirter . |
| 17 | It was feeling a deep ache of loss for something she had never had in the first place . |