Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 2 | Perhaps she had been closer to the truth than she had at first suspected with her taunts about Theo Quinn ; and , although she no longer wanted Ben , she felt that , if this were to prove the case , it would be a great waste of promising material . |
| 3 | Orwell 's simplicity was much like that parent-figure : it can suddenly look more complicated , and more assumed , than one had at first supposed . |
| 4 | Derek Hampson , assistant manager of the RSPCA home , said : ‘ The dog was much older than we had at first been informed and he was very sick . |
| 5 | The most important lesson to be learnt from the fossil discoveries of the 1840s and 1850s was that the history of life was far more complex than anyone had at first realized . |
| 6 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 7 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 8 | Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared . |
| 9 | Further research revealed that what had at first appeared to be a bizarre anomaly was in fact a cultural feature shared by many different Indian peoples . |
| 10 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 11 | Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed . |
| 12 | He swigged his champagne with such abandon that Ruth knew he had swallowed Maria Luisa 's explanation of their affair with the same ease as she had at first . |
| 13 | And yet between these two , from what has been said and written and recollected by both , an intense and governing bond grew up unlikely though it had at first seemed . |
| 14 | The wound was not as serious as it had at first seemed , but the bone was broken . |