Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] had first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 2 | Golden Girl had cleared the rocks on which she had first grounded , the wind slithering the lightened catamaran broadside across the sparse grasses sprouting from the leached sandy soil behind the ancient coastline . |
| 3 | Swathes of jasmine , loose from a prolifically flowering specimen on the edge of the house , occasionally fell over their railing , with their sweet scent , before Mrs Irving , clothed in her gardening gear of wellingtons and apron over the seated and threadbare tweed suit in which she had first enticed them in , came and bound these back . |
| 4 | The play in which she had first appeared was still running ; its clumsy comedy appealed to the audiences who came here . |
| 5 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |
| 6 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 7 | It was still as gloomy as the day on which she had first seen it and she longed to transform it into a place of splendid elegance . |
| 8 | She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit . |
| 9 | Leith was reversing her car when she spotted the Jaguar which she had first seen — grief , was it only yesterday morning ? |
| 10 | Alongside the new universities themselves , starting their degree courses from scratch and employing large numbers of sometimes rather dubiously qualified new lecturers , there was a parallel development in the polytechnics , many of them offering degree courses for the first time , and devising courses in subjects such as literature , languages , and philosophy that had nothing whatever to do with the technology-based courses for which they had first been invented . |
| 11 | Pushing the door open , she entered a dim chamber similar to the one in which they had first met Dubois . |
| 12 | The Slovenes of these newly acquired territories were no strangers to German rule , which they had first experienced under Charlemagne . |
| 13 | So he reached Camp David , the presidential dacha which he had first suspected of being an outpost of the American Gulag . |
| 14 | But despite his permanent paralysis and great physical and mental suffering , Akpata has not lost any love of the game or rugby , which he had first viewed as a boy in Scotland . |
| 15 | His belief in the politics of the middle way , which he had first expressed in the years of high unemployment in the 1930s , were easily reconstructed into modern Keynesianism . |
| 16 | Eight-year-old Gerald pauses mid-way through extracting the marrow from a colobus bone with a short stick ( held between thumb and forefinger ) , which he had first stripped of leaves and broken to length . |
| 17 | He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living . |
| 18 | British Moslem leaders claimed that the ban was an example of British double standards , since there had been no ban on Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses , for which he had first been condemned to death by the Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in February 1989 [ see pp. 36450-51 ; 37266 ] . |
| 19 | For this purpose she was admitted to a specialist residential unit for children and adolescents under the care of Dr. M. , a consultant psychiatrist whom she had first met when she had been referred to the family consultation clinic in 1987 . |
| 20 | The American had presumably gone willingly enough , and it was she who had first suggested to Michele to try ‘ being nice to the girl ’ , so she must be very sure of him . |
| 21 | He was the one who had first asked her with rushed ineptitude , despite his having planned the question for months , ‘ Are you ever lonely ? ’ |
| 22 | The one who had first dealt with Karr bowed his head slightly , responding to Karr 's words . |
| 23 | That one we had first so |
| 24 | They booked time in several prestigious London studios and enlisted the help of producer Chris Allison , with whom they had first worked six months previously on ‘ My Favourite Dress ’ , but the recording began on a sour note and remained agitated throughout . |
| 25 | They remarked on the personal service , from the same senior consultant whom they had first met , comparing them with a larger firm who had acted in a heavy-handed way towards them and who had subsequently sent a junior consultant actually to handle the work , after they had dealt with the most senior partner at the beginning . |
| 26 | He knew the answer from the police-sergeant to whom he had first spoken . |
| 27 | He was a discreet consultant to King Hassan , whom he had first met when Hassan was a young prince . |
| 28 | Tolonen looked across at the boy , trying to see him as Spatz saw him ; as he himself had first seen him , before he had seen the films that demonstrated the boy 's abilities . |
| 29 | Mr Wardle promised a relaxation in checks which denied asylum to anyone who had first passed through another European country . |
| 30 | What he had first taken for height he soon realized was a product of high — very high — heels , and he guessed that without the lifts she would be around five foot , pleasantly featured , with a round face and perfectly round brown eyes that looked almost serene until he realized how hard they were . |