Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 2 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 3 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 4 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 5 | Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ . |
| 6 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 7 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he 'd said to the first . |