Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scathach had been telling about his first journey through the wood . |
| 2 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 3 | He had been defeated at his first attempt in 1685 , and in 1689 petitioned the Commons against Tory violence at the hustings . |
| 4 | She had refused to be parted from it , and leniency had been shown during her first few days in new surroundings . |
| 5 | Whereas Goneril and Regan had been shown to us first in disguise , and then in reality , Edmund begins in reality , and only adopts disguise when his father enters . |
| 6 | Too much had been vested in his first family . |
| 7 | The Court recounted that Nicaragua 's declaration had been reproduced in its first Yearbook with a note explaining the situation . |
| 8 | More notably , however , at the Chichester Theatre in 1983 he rescued the reputation of A Patriot for Me , John Osborne 's tragi-comedy of homosexuality which had been banned after its first performance in 1965 . |