Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] have first " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how she had first met Travis McKenna , Jonas Hamilton 's grandson . |
| 2 | It was , for what it 's worth , how they had first met , Rab in a leather jacket , with his milk bottles , his resemblance to Elvis — in Jailhouse Rock — what had made her wild about him . |
| 3 | Miss Kenton was still standing out in the hall where I had first spotted her . |
| 4 | I wanted to revisit the place where I had first caught sight of Jean-Claude years ago . |
| 5 | Some days later a strange black thing was seen on the beach where I had first arrived in Lilliput . |
| 6 | And the day , not long afterwards , when she 'd first heard someone call her father crazy . |
| 7 | That was when she 'd first decided to try to make up to her father for what he 'd lost . |
| 8 | That had been one of the biggest worries when she had first fled to France : what was everyone going to say ? |
| 9 | In the days when she had first known him she had wondered idly whether she might see Rupert round here , ‘ going in ’ or ‘ coming out ’ , though she was not clear when this might be expected or even what he might have been doing . |
| 10 | The big library was where she 'd first met him . |
| 11 | If she did , she thought with a flash of venom , she would coax her step-father back into the woodshed where she had first had it . |
| 12 | Flavia , looking from an upper window , saw it , saw it on the exact spot where she had first seen Michel , experienced confusion , incredulous joy , a pang . |
| 13 | Shortly after she became aware of the sounds , they stopped ; a moment later she came to the clearing where she had first seen and spoken to him . |
| 14 | She reached the clearing where she had first seen Fernand . |
| 15 | At three in the morning she passed the field where she had first seen Angel Clare , and felt again the disappointment when he did not dance with her . |
| 16 | To her annoyance she found that just for a while there , while they had been swimming and afterwards when they 'd first gone into the club , she had actually been enjoying his company . |
| 17 | On the contrary , time and again Ashley had found herself thinking about Vitor 's looks , that purring accent , those first moments when they had first met . |
| 18 | Avril 's wish came true on April 6 last year , when the couple were married at the parish church in Saltburn where they 'd first met . |
| 19 | It was shortly before noon when they reached the highway where they had first met Simon . |
| 20 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 21 | The windows of the pump-house blew out with a roar of debris and crashing concrete blocks , one falling where they had first taken cover . |
| 22 | Since that day in August when he had first visited the house up the valley , he had , during the past ten weeks , made a dozen return visits . |
| 23 | He was two years older than me and was only eighteen when he had first killed somebody . |
| 24 | With the flat , disciplined North German plain rattling past , he suddenly remembered when he had first been posted to Germany how surprised and even unnerved he had been to find that all the buildings seemed familiar . |
| 25 | For a moment , when he 'd first stepped back from it , he 'd experienced the satisfaction of the true craftsman . |
| 26 | Charles thought back to when he 'd first met Bernard in Cardiff — a gauche , rather insecure young man with a slight stammer . |
| 27 | He called his future domicile Belmont , for it stood on the high ground , with a view sweeping down through the coconut palms to the shore where he had first landed that night he took possession . |
| 28 | He then moved out of Paris and lived in villages near the river Seine to the west of Paris — Louveciennes , Marly-le-Roi , and Sèvres — but in 1880 he returned to the area south-east of the forest of Fontainebleau , where he had first painted during the 1860s , and lived in a series of villages near the confluence of the rivers Loing and Seine — Veneux-Nadon , Les Sablons , and Moret-sur-Loing . |
| 29 | As he left the village he passed the field where he had first seen Tess at the dance . |
| 30 | Sandra faded beside him , returned to the pages of the magazine where he had first seen her . |