Example sentences of "had [vb pp] from [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suppose Lorton had intended from the first to rob Newley , to murder him , and to present the police with a strong case against someone else ? |
| 2 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 3 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 4 | Turakina had known from the first how he would react , but she had pretended resistance for a day and a night before giving her consent . |
| 5 | Jasper , her elder brother , had refused from the first to dress up for this party and wore his school jeans and Western shirt , though school had not seen him that day . |
| 6 | Britain , in common with the Allies , had learned from the First World War that international peace and stability could only be maintained by the early restoration of Germany to the comity of nations . |
| 7 | The inability of O'Neill and Chichester-Clark to satisfy those demands without destabilizing the state had created the very condition that people such as Paisley had argued had obtained from the first : the rise of old-fashioned nationalist anti-partitionism . |