Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So the problem is greater than I had first thought . |
| 5 | ‘ This might be a lot more tricky than I had first supposed . |
| 6 | It is a far more complex matter than I had first thought ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He seemed slightly older than she had first imagined . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He later reported that they were in worse condition than he had first thought and doubted whether they were fit for the job . |
| 11 | In his Chiswick-based headquarters , where The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition was pieced together , Neil Storey explained how the project was more complex than he had first imagined . |
| 12 | There was evidently more to this alien antiquity than he had first supposed . |
| 13 | The purchaser of records had to send three wrappers for each record , so he had first to acquire them . |
| 14 | I end up in exactly the same spot as if I had first walked four paces due east ( which is one sort of displacement , an easterly sort ) and then three paces due north ( which is another sort of displacement , a northerly sort ) . |
| 15 | They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised . |
| 16 | Conversely , when Woosnam was taken ill so badly during the Johnnie Walker tournament in Bangkok earlier this year that on completion of his round he had to be rushed to hospital suffering from dehydration , he did not leave until he had first dealt with the hovering group of reporters . |
| 17 | The idea of siphoning the matured learning of the Universities to the industrial and agricultural areas is as fresh and germane as if it had first been thought of last night . |
| 18 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |
| 19 | We also told him that , as a matter of policy , regardless of the legal situation , we certainly would n't be prepared to offer the painting for sale unless it had first been offered to the museum to see whether it would be possible for them to re-acquire it . |
| 20 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 21 | I though of Poppy and was surprised to find that the fever that had raged in my blood since I had first seen her was n't there any more . |
| 22 | It was a just over a week since she had first set foot on the Dorset coast path . |
| 23 | Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her . |
| 24 | That patch had slowly become an image of despair and frustration over many occasions since she had first shared his bed . |
| 25 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 26 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
| 27 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |
| 28 | She had wanted to know if he had a wife , just out of normal curiosity , ever since she had first met him . |
| 29 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 30 | All the tension and nervousness and anger was released in one swift exit from the man who had dominated , despised and ridiculed her ever since they had first met . |