Example sentences of "as [pron] have first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spartan asceticism in the attic as I had first experienced it was giving way to small comforts . |
| 2 | She made a mild attempt to evade him but he cut across and landed in front of her , sitting , as she had first seen him , with the sheep and goats dithering and teetering before and around him . |
| 3 | Mrs Hawkins reported that she had been unable to take photos at this location as she had first to finish off a slide film , but will soon be in a position to take the required photos and also others to be displayed at the A.G.M. and then stored in the village archives . |
| 4 | At the time she 'd put that pass down to a reflex action of a man who could n't let any opportunity pass him by , but now she was beginning to have doubts that he was as shallow as she 'd first thought . |
| 5 | There was also a growing body of opinion in Westminster and Whitehall amongst many of those who had initially welcomed Sandys ’ 1957 Defence White Paper , that his doctrine was not as sensible as they had first thought . |
| 6 | Twenty minutes later , George Leeming lay as they had first seen him , except that his eyes were now open and his back arched as the doctor had placed a pillow under him to make him more comfortable . |
| 7 | Also , Tilly had decided that she could not now reveal the news she had brought with her this morning ; shocking news , news that told how Richard had been cheated and deceived by his own wife … and devastating news of Beth … how she was not safe and happy with Tyler Blacklock , as they had first thought , and how she also had been betrayed , both by her own brother Ben , and by the woman who had raised her from a child . |
| 8 | Women would have the right to an abortion during the first 12 weeks of their pregnancy as long as they had first received non-binding counselling . |
| 9 | Charity was as he had first known her , the chill turning to ice . |
| 10 | Slowly it dawned on Alexander that the tension that he had first noticed was not of specific parts , as he had first presumed , but of himself as a whole being . |
| 11 | Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed . |
| 12 | And Joey found out that Lizzy , the daughter of a policewoman , was not as innocent as he had first thought . |
| 13 | And Mary as he had first seen her appeared before him again like an apparition as he slid slowly into a long sleep . |
| 14 | Suddenly Alexei remembered Tarvaras as he had first seen it — a revolving holographic projection suspended in the viewing well of the briefing amphitheatre of an Imperial survey vessel , the Simonova — off which he and five other humans had been marooned over twelve standard years earlier . |
| 15 | He began to assemble what he remembered about the house in Mouncy Street as he had first known it . |
| 16 | In the annals of history , Ivor 's name will be first in the Book of the Elect at the Cathedral , as he has first to be called during the ceremony . |