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 | Traditionally , as a refuge for his invalid son , who had just suffered his first attack of epilepsy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On St Valentines Day that year , the oil cartel , OPEC , had just had its first major success in forcing up in oil prices . |
| 9 | ‘ Thomas had just had his first round of chemotherapy , ’ says his mother Clemency . |
| 10 | He had just caught his first glimpse of Thorsbury Manor . |
| 11 | Younger than Fräulein , he had just finished his first year at university , but was already in trouble . |
| 12 | Here Sir Edmond 's parents had been buried , and here the School had probably had its first home . |
| 13 | 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 . |