Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was immediately confirmed by a sound similar to that which my own shoulders had made on first entering the narrow space . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought that they were extinct , ’ Zach had said on first seeing her riding it . |
| 3 | The girl had struggled at first , but Bernice had reassured her : They 'll bring me to you in just a minute , she 'd said . |
| 4 | Engineers , it was often said , only carried out ideas that other people had thought of first . |
| 5 | Berowne had spoken at first spasmodically , then easily , and finally intimately . |
| 6 | The earl had got in first on this wonderful anchorage , and the advantage remained with his town . |
| 7 | The reason that Schrödinger 's and Heisenberg 's versions of quantum mechanics had seemed at first sight different from each other ( see p. 14 ) was that they had chosen to use contrasting extreme possibilities . |
| 8 | A friend indicated that the Army had seemed at first to understand when the WRAC driver said she feared other Paratroopers would victimise her for ‘ squealing ’ on their pals . |
| 9 | Downing Street had originally put in a request for the Bridal Suite , only to discover that Jeffrey Archer had got in first . |
| 10 | Thomas had thought at first that it was a shadow . |
| 11 | Maslyukov had served as First Deputy Premier and chair of Gosplan , and briefly as acting Prime Minister after Nikolai Ryzhkov was incapacitated by a heart attack in late December . |