Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was intriguing was that after the gentleman in question had filled in his first , second and third name there was room on the form , if he felt so inclined , to tell us the ‘ forename or nickname by which you are popularly known ’ . |
| 2 | There had been 169 executions in US states since the death penalty was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976 , most of them in conservative Southern states , but on April 6 Arizona had carried out its first execution for 29 years , while in March the first execution in Delaware since 1946 had been implemented . |
| 3 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 4 | After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain . |
| 5 | The master tactician in the whole area was Billy Butlin , who a year before the Rector of Stiffkey 's aborted lecture had opened up his first holiday camp , in Skegness . |
| 6 | ‘ She told me she had mucked up her first few weeks and was finding it very difficult to make friends . ’ |
| 7 | Some superb striking by Michael Glass took Ballymena out of trouble after Lurgan had whipped out their first three batsmen for nine runs at Eaton Park . |
| 8 | But most importantly , once the strike had lasted out its first week , a large number of businessmen and middle-class professionals tacitly co-operated with the strikers in return for being able to pursue some of their normal business . |