Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 2 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 3 | He would not tell her , this funny bewitching little English girl , that he had come to her first because he could not keep away from her . |
| 4 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 5 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 6 | I had become quite skilled with harees , that glutinous porridge of lamb and cracked wheat which I had met at my first meal bedu style . |
| 7 | Her ring at the doorbell was answered by the woman she had seen on her first visit — the one who had spoken a little English . |
| 8 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 9 | If the CBSO strings failed to assert themselves strongly enough in the overall balance at certain crucial points in the first movement , they certainly approached the textural problems of the adagio with great sensitivity and , when it came to them , phrased the main theme as eloquently as the clarinet had done on its first appearance . |
| 10 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 11 | ‘ Stop messing about , ’ Rosie had said at his first attempt . |
| 12 | This was the same island we had visited on my first trip . |
| 13 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |
| 14 | THE FORM book proved a poor guide yesterday when Napoli , who stumbled into the UEFA Cup 's second round in midweek on penalties , won 3-0 against Milan , who had breezed through their first defence of the European Cup , writes Phil Shaw . |
| 15 | Ethel Hallow was the form sneak and goody-goody , and it was hardly surprising that Mildred felt unfriendly towards her after all the mean tricks Ethel had played during their first two terms , including almost getting Mildred expelled on two occasions . |
| 16 | She opened the door and was surprised to find him holding the jodhpurs she had worn during her first ride . |
| 17 | I had arrived for my first meeting with the North Downs Steam Railway which is managed by a friendly group of enthusiasts who are not prepared to be put off by a drop of rain , even if it was one of the heaviest storms of the summer . |
| 18 | These older cells undergo a second migration and give rise to a variety of cell types quite alien to the site at which they had arrived in their first migration , suggesting that there is a mixed population of cells at each site at the end of migration and the conditions at each site favour the growth and differentiation of specific members of the mixed population ; the others fail to flourish and presumably die . |
| 19 | Salt had recovered from her first surprise and was about to launch into a longer attack . |
| 20 | The monastery 's right to Pallas was challenged by the Lady Garsinde , wife of Bernard le Velu , who declared that the estate had belonged to her first husband Raymond , from whom count Raymond III had taken it by force . |
| 21 | In early June Slovenia had sworn in its first 300 regular troops . |
| 22 | Theda almost burst into tears , as she recalled Benedict 's endearing name for her that had stuck from their first meeting . |
| 23 | Then , after a couple more weeks , that strange phenomenon appeared , just as it had appeared after his first two weeks of basic training with the Royal Army Service Corp . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’ |
| 25 | She was also prone to frequent and severe migraine headaches , and she had a wheezy chest which had led to her first asthma attack which worried her greatly . |
| 26 | It had n't been so wet earlier , when Benny had left for her first day at college . |
| 27 | As she had learned on her first night there , Moorlake was noisy at night . |
| 28 | Ellie recovered her composure and understood perfectly well what Madame meant once she had tried on her first set of crepe de Chine camiknickers . |
| 29 | Not everyone admires the Drunken Poet(s) scene : a ‘ miniature comic drama ’ , ‘ an amusing introduction to the freakish yet lyrical world of the play , [ though ] it possibly blunts the effect of what Purcell had planned as his first scene , the masque at the end of Act II ’ ; ‘ the scene badly disfigures the drama … it is dramatically incongruous and is introduced clumsily ’ ' It might help to know where it came from . |
| 30 | She led her downstairs along a corridor she had explored on her first day and indicated a door at the far end . |