Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 5 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 6 | Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared . |
| 7 | Within days it was obvious that the extent of the dissolution was every bit as great as I had at first suspected . |
| 8 | Or was the fact of their friendship with Gideon just an unwelcome coincidence , as I had at first supposed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The wound was not as serious as it had at first seemed , but the bone was broken . |