Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was the same island we had visited on my first trip . |
| 6 | As she had learned on her first night there , Moorlake was noisy at night . |
| 7 | Ellie recovered her composure and understood perfectly well what Madame meant once she had tried on her first set of crepe de Chine camiknickers . |
| 8 | She led her downstairs along a corridor she had explored on her first day and indicated a door at the far end . |
| 9 | Her confidence , which had returned on her first view of the house , once more ebbed . |