Example sentences of "it had [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could control that by reminding herself of the terrible consequences it had led to the first time . |
| 2 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 3 | More importantly still , it had provided for the first time an ‘ effective ’ means of redress for those wishing to complain that interception has been improperly authorized . |
| 4 | With the support of the printed lines , Michael Banks 's performance regained the stature it had shown in the first scene and left no doubt that he was going to add a new excellence to The Hooded Owl . |
| 5 | It had started with the first Whistler murder . |
| 6 | But Greenpeace noted that the British government 's willingness to sign the convention as it stood was a fundamental shift in policy in that it had agreed for the first time to the elimination in principle of dangerous chemicals . |