Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The High Elves had won their first major victory . |
| 2 | I had won my first major title . |
| 3 | He had forgotten our first fleeting encounter . |
| 4 | It was confirmed in September 1990 that Dounreay had secured its first new contract for reprocessing with the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt research reactor in Braunschweig to reprocess 39 spent fuel rods . |
| 5 | Some days later Gwenellen told me he had attended his first follow-up clinic two days previously . |
| 6 | She was stiff and tense in every muscle but she had done her first good day 's work since the discovery of the murder . |
| 7 | In February 1943 Wingate had made his first long-range penetration into North Burma , cut the railway in seventy places and crossed the Irrawaddy . |
| 8 | He would have to be told ; any day now it would dawn on Tollemarche that it had spawned its first successful author , and he could guess the kind of jokes his father 's colleagues were going to make when they found out what kind of book he had written . |
| 9 | The Minister added that the Serbian government had drafted its first integral environmental protection plan . |
| 10 | The Cuban missile crisis heightened fears on the Continent that a US-Soviet nuclear conflict could occur without any European control over events and de Gaulle decided that France , which had exploded its first atomic bomb in 1960 , must develop its own independent nuclear force . |
| 11 | However , also in 1964 , China announced that it had exploded their first nuclear device , and that caused worldwide concern , particularly to their close neighbours , the U.S.S.R. |
| 12 | In the same year , 1955 , Khrushchev had got his first close view of his adversary , Dulles , at the Geneva summit conference , passing notes to Eisenhower who , Khrushchev decided disapprovingly , was letting Dulles do his thinking for him . |
| 13 | It had found its first practical test in United States hostility towards Libya in 1986 and was developed further during the United States intervention in the maritime conflict in the Gulf on behalf of Kuwait in 1987 . |
| 14 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 15 | But in mid-1942 , at Bir-Hakeim in the Libyan desert , Free French forces had scored their first significant victory against German forces , and this had been followed by other successful actions in North Africa . |
| 16 | The British had reserved their first great station gestures for the interior of the subcontinent . |