Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Swansea and Neath Society was founded in December 1822 but made no appeal through a public meeting until January 1826 ; the Manchester Society , although becoming active at the beginning of 1824 , issued no report to the public until March 1827 and had only had its first public meeting on 22 March 1826 . |
| 2 | He had already done his first translation of one of Hitler 's speeches into English . |
| 3 | She was aware that her mother had already had her first drink , and was on to her second , if not third glass of wine , if the bottle was anything to go by . |
| 4 | And once again I thought of Prospero ; even if he had not said it first , I should have thought of it then . |
| 5 | The receivers had already paid off the debt to the bank which gave rise to their appointment , but had not paid themselves first , as they were entitled to do under the terms of their appointment ( p 99 ) . |
| 6 | They had not paid themselves first , in spite of the debenture 's terms , but had paid off the mortgage . |
| 7 | At the time of the Korean War , when Attlee helped to persuade Truman to drop any idea of using the atomic bomb against the Chinese mainland , Britain had not exploded her first nuclear weapon . |
| 8 | We have not dealt with a report from the Advisory Centre for Education saying that the number of complaints from parents who had not got their first choice of school had doubled . |
| 9 | Fleury had not finished his first cup when this happened . |
| 10 | Traditionally , as a refuge for his invalid son , who had just suffered his first attack of epilepsy . |
| 11 | I had just received my first commission from the world 's greatest rock read and I had less than 24 hours to deliver the goods . |
| 12 | Paul Newman had just secured his first major film role , with Pier Angeli in The Silver Chalice ( which was so bad that when it was shown on television in the Sixties , he took out newspaper advertisements apologising to viewers for having to watch it ) . |
| 13 | We had just started our first lectures , when apart from helping to prepare the Sulphonamide paper I was given a weekend off to visit City Temple friends who had started a Community House at Highbury New Park . |
| 14 | On St Valentines Day that year , the oil cartel , OPEC , had just had its first major success in forcing up in oil prices . |
| 15 | ‘ Thomas had just had his first round of chemotherapy , ’ says his mother Clemency . |
| 16 | He had just caught his first glimpse of Thorsbury Manor . |
| 17 | Younger than Fräulein , he had just finished his first year at university , but was already in trouble . |
| 18 | Here Sir Edmond 's parents had been buried , and here the School had probably had its first home . |
| 19 | As they walked inside , arm in arm , she said huskily , ‘ Darling , what would you have done if I had n't said it first ? ’ |
| 20 | She badly needed another drink but Maxim had n't finished his first yet . |
| 21 | I had n't deserted my first love , the Salcombe yawl Lisa , but she lived in my home in South Devon , and now that I was officially attached to Sir Edmund Pusey 's Police Liaison Group at the Home Office I had to live in London , and the Crouch was much more accessible . |
| 22 | If she had n't approached me first I doubt I should have recognised her , she was so different from the plump , fresh-faced girl whom I had met on the train that January morning more than three years ago . |
| 23 | He had never used her first name before , she realised , and the lilting sound of it on his lips sent a knife-sharp thrust of awareness through her , taking away any power to reply to his last words . |