Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] on [pron] first " in BNC.

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1 Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other .
2 He rubbed it between his fingers , staring with admiration , then sank , cross-legged , near my chair , the way he 'd done on his first night .
3 It might even be something that Creed already understood , that he 'd divined on their first meeting in the Mortlake office .
4 It was advertising mail , like most of that which he 'd opened on his first visit and later burned in the forest .
5 In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished .
6 Her ring at the doorbell was answered by the woman she had seen on her first visit — the one who had spoken a little English .
7 He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it .
8 If the CBSO strings failed to assert themselves strongly enough in the overall balance at certain crucial points in the first movement , they certainly approached the textural problems of the adagio with great sensitivity and , when it came to them , phrased the main theme as eloquently as the clarinet had done on its first appearance .
9 This was the same island we had visited on my first trip .
10 As she had learned on her first night there , Moorlake was noisy at night .
11 Ellie recovered her composure and understood perfectly well what Madame meant once she had tried on her first set of crepe de Chine camiknickers .
12 She led her downstairs along a corridor she had explored on her first day and indicated a door at the far end .
13 Her confidence , which had returned on her first view of the house , once more ebbed .
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