Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not believe that I had got my first job . |
| 2 | Before that , in 1963 , I had published my first article — also on an aspect of the language of advertising . |
| 3 | But I had learned my first lesson . |
| 4 | I had won my first major title . |
| 5 | I met my teacher 's teacher once , fairly soon after I had finished my first instruments . |
| 6 | The conference was the first to be held by the union since the 1981 convention which had followed its first registration as a legal union [ see p. 31213 ] . |
| 7 | The Cuban missile crisis heightened fears on the Continent that a US-Soviet nuclear conflict could occur without any European control over events and de Gaulle decided that France , which had exploded its first atomic bomb in 1960 , must develop its own independent nuclear force . |
| 8 | And she still remembered how , as the car began to climb into the lake land hills , she had seen her first mountain — a sharp blue crag that , outlined against the sky , had made her sit up and stare . |
| 9 | When she had seen him first , she had marked him as a " bully " , one of those who kept the brothel girls in line . |
| 10 | She was stiff and tense in every muscle but she had done her first good day 's work since the discovery of the murder . |
| 11 | She had passed her first Challenge ! |
| 12 | It was Louisa as much as the doctor who supervised the carrying of Emilia into the Hall , holding her cold hand , murmuring small phrases of consolation and encouragement as the improvised litter was lifted carefully up the stairs and the invalid laid in the same bed where she had passed her first night at Easterness . |
| 13 | It was from the card inside that she had learned their first names : Teodor and Sophie . |
| 14 | Bluebeard had been a private joke — an exclamation she had been unable to stifle as they 'd rounded the cliff at the head of the valley and she had got her first glimpse of the imposing turreted Castell Rocamar . |
| 15 | She had divorced her first husband because he showed signs of becoming like her father , and now , at her second attempt , the man she had married , while not apparently planning to emulate her parent , yet found him admirable . |
| 16 | Her therapist had , naturally , put it to her that she had married her first husband just because he resembled her father , but Scarlet had rejected the suggestion quite emphatically : he had been a quiet , timorous boy until he discovered the excitement of chasing women , and he had not been artistic at all . |
| 17 | Jamaica indicated another approach to the art of colonization , in which the government took valuable colonies away from Europeans who had reached them first . |
| 18 | It was that young fool of a student Bacci , who stood up stiffly at the sight of the Marshal who had witnessed his first embarrassingly unsuccessful attempt at being a policeman . |
| 19 | If only you had read it first — as at least six people did without realising . |
| 20 | However , having overcome that obstacle we headed down the major road for Arad and despite the large pot holes which had to be avoided and the need to keep your eyes skinned for mobile hayricks ( horses and extremely overladen carts with no lights ) doing approximately 2 miles per hour , we arrived at our friends ' home in Arad at around 8.30 very relieved that we had reached our first destination . |
| 21 | We watched them disappear into the dusk as we anchored at the little island of Likangloe , where we had witnessed our first python hunt . |
| 22 | And what thick boots ! ’ cried Estella in disgust , before we had finished our first game . |
| 23 | These children were eligible to enter the trial if they were between 37 and 43 weeks of age and if their immunisation record indicated that they had received their first dose of OPV between 6 and 12 weeks of age and their second and third doses at 4 to 6 week intervals . |
| 24 | It was in that ugly repository of polished pine , acoustic tiles and garish , sentimental stained glass that he and his wife had been married , and in a flat in the rectory , living above the parish priest , that they had made their first home . |
| 25 | Now that they had made their first move , their first real move , they would not give up until Jack Stone did what he was supposed to do : start talking . |
| 26 | They had made their first venture into the quicksand that Vietnam was to become . |
| 27 | As the train drew near she looked out for Rough Stones , the house up on the hillside where they had made their first home ; but it was night , and all she saw was a glimmer that could as well have been a shepherd 's lantern . |
| 28 | But after they had lost their first five wickets with only 134 on the board , Rutherford and Blain swung the balance back in their favour in the last 45 minutes , adding 34 runs to take their side agonisingly close to squaring the series after a humiliating innings and 60-run defeat in Christchurch . |
| 29 | They had bought their first house and were expecting their first baby . |
| 30 | His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding . |