Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally she returned to the information desk where she 'd first encountered him the previous day , and found a pretty young woman sitting there stacking up guide books on Dublin . |
| 2 | ( I would point out at this stage that I would never begin to treat a patient with physical symptoms of this sort unless he or she had first consulted their doctor and was able to tell me that no physical cause for the problem could be found . ) |
| 3 | After about ten minutes , they found themselves back where they 'd first arrived in Victorian London . |
| 4 | He pointed out the pebbled street in front of park 's Guest House where they had first stayed and a bungalow they had taken between the church and the golf links . |
| 5 | Now he strode out not apprehensive that he might have lost contact with that gift of powerful calm which had so effectively stilled the thresh of his emotions , but confident that as soon as he reached the Point and stood as and where he had first stopped — the experience would be renewed and reinforced , the key would fit the lock . |
| 6 | On the same day that he received Palmerston 's letter , he replied that he had not intended to say that Gothic was re-established as the leading English architecture of the day , but rather its history and origin made a strong case for its revival in those countries where it had first flourished . |
| 7 | It was at Thurso in Scotland that I 'd first seen surfers riding tubes . |
| 8 | It was in those days , then , prompted by my natural admiration for the lady , that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment . |
| 9 | So the problem is greater than I had first thought . |
| 10 | ‘ This might be a lot more tricky than I had first supposed . |
| 11 | It is a far more complex matter than I had first thought ’ . |
| 12 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 13 | It was on a similar mission seven months earlier that she had first met Darren . |
| 14 | By the time the crème brulée was served , she realized that James was n't the gentle , sensitive , vulnerable charmer that she had first imagined but a crashing bore . |
| 15 | O'Keeffe made it clear that she defined her art strictly as self-expression and indicated that she had first begun her formal training at the Art Institute of Chicago . |
| 16 | In here , he seemed younger than she 'd first assumed . |
| 17 | Isabel looked up at him quickly , startled anew as she realised he was much younger than she 'd first supposed . |
| 18 | Starting to panic , she turned her bag upside-down — and the situation was a great deal worse than she 'd first feared . |
| 19 | He seemed slightly older than she had first imagined . |
| 20 | Pennycuick J held in Lord Inchrya that one had first to ascertain the nature of the payments according to the law governing the position , ie the law of the District of Columbia . |
| 21 | Our objective was to identify and characterise anything unusual in the loch , so we had first to define the sonar characteristics or the things we knew were there : notably to establish the position , strength and movement of signals received from fish . |
| 22 | A justification for talk of abstract ideas is that it provides an explanation of how our thought and knowledge can be general ; ‘ how we can know any proposition to be true of all particular triangles , except we have first seen it demonstrated of the abstract idea of a triangle . ’ |
| 23 | Also , the stage was bigger than they 'd first thought . |
| 24 | Sunderland defender Anton Rogan is linking-up with the squad after his club bowed to pressure from the Irish FA that they have first call on him under FIFA 's World Cup rules . |
| 25 | It was odd that he 'd first spoken to her in English when he could n't possibly have known … |
| 26 | Midani , the wealthy Lebanese who had always believed that he had first option should Edwards ever decide to sell , after trying to buy the club himself , insisted more than once : ‘ United must not be caused embarassment , ’ and seemed to be the one participant in what became an increasingly shabby affair who was conscious that great dignity was at stake . |
| 27 | Mr Masters was quite clear that he had first seen the blue BMW late on the Saturday evening , ten days before , pointing out that , while you could n't exactly complain , it had made access to his own forecourt space a little difficult , or at least when there was already another car on the forecourt , which there mostly was , that being Mrs Masters 's runabout . |
| 28 | Fonda was able to say that he had first tried LSD a couple of years earlier , and had also been a spasmodic user of marijuana — in between more prolific bouts of drinking vodka or scotch — since 1962 when he was turned on by Jim Mitchum at the Carlton Towers Hotel , in London . |
| 29 | Maidstone explained that he had first come to Italy after the First World War . |
| 30 | Having twice refused on the grounds that he had first to win Tangier and Ceuta ( which he accomplished in 1084 ) , Yusuf finally turned his attention to Spain at Motamid 's third desperate request . |