Example sentences of "have [verb] [subord] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was the first bit of luck I 'd had since I first set eyes on you . |
| 2 | She must have panicked when she first smelt the fire . |
| 3 | He looked at her with those sensual eyes and she knew how Ma must have felt when she first met Pa . |
| 4 | He decided to open his eyes , and immediately knew how God must have felt when he first observed his new creation . |
| 5 | What can he have thought when he first got me here ? |
| 6 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |
| 7 | He found , however , as he loped along , ostensibly to school , that he could not feel the same bitterness that he had done when he first started to write . |
| 8 | ‘ Doctor Livingstone , I presume , ’ he had said when they first appeared on the terrace and Flora had darted over to us with glad , accented cries : ‘ Richard , Elizabeth , what an extraordinary thing ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She 'll sort me out like a good Daily Telegraph lady , ’ Arlott had said when she first came to look after them at Alresford . |
| 10 | ‘ Dreadfully sorry , old chap ! ’ the Commander had said when he first heard , Lis voice wheezing and whistling in his throat . |
| 11 | They ran back to the house for breakfast , George excited at their success , Libby content with the same feeling she had had when she first persuaded the old pony to come up to her and accept sugar from her outstretched palm . |
| 12 | He had never completely recovered from the serious illness he had had when he first arrived . |
| 13 | The dufflecoat would have been the one he had worn when he first came to work at the Establishment . |
| 14 | In all these months when Matthew had kept out of her way , he had changed from the boy she had known when she first came to Maisie 's house . |
| 15 | Although this feat was probably know to McBride , he most likely was responding to the increasing image control evident in a painting like ‘ The Shelton with Sunspots ’ as a radical departure from the work he had encountered when he first began to review her exhibitions in 1923 . |
| 16 | He chose a piece of smooth parchment and began to write down everything that had happened since he first went to the Springall mansion . |
| 17 | A mood which seems to be slipped into more and more frequently as the months have elapsed since they first met . |
| 18 | Or perhaps values have changed since they first joined . |
| 19 | ‘ Ipswich docks have changed since I first knew them over sixty years ago . |