Example sentences of "in which [pron] have first " in BNC.

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1 Pushing the door open , she entered a dim chamber similar to the one in which they had first met Dubois .
2 Swathes of jasmine , loose from a prolifically flowering specimen on the edge of the house , occasionally fell over their railing , with their sweet scent , before Mrs Irving , clothed in her gardening gear of wellingtons and apron over the seated and threadbare tweed suit in which she had first enticed them in , came and bound these back .
3 The play in which she had first appeared was still running ; its clumsy comedy appealed to the audiences who came here .
4 It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy .
5 She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit .
6 He was trying , insanely , to preserve everyone in this family in just the state in which he had first encountered them , when they had given him that delightful sense of secure , harmonious , integrated living .
7 He was n't wearing the ridiculously inadequate suit in which he 'd first appeared in the village on that same spot .
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