Example sentences of "we [vb past] first [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd first met at Bridge Street Methodist Church , when she was no more than eleven . |
| 2 | We had first hung the avant-garde pictures in our main room , but as the man in charge of our building , and a local policeman , sometimes called on us , my wife and I decided to hang the pictures in the bedroom and put the icons in the living room . |
| 3 | Our objective was to identify and characterise anything unusual in the loch , so we had first to define the sonar characteristics or the things we knew were there : notably to establish the position , strength and movement of signals received from fish . |
| 4 | We had first got to know one another as young teachers in the parish Sunday schools and in the Band of Hope , where we both signed the pledge against any intoxicating drink , a pledge withdrawn when we became adults . |
| 5 | We arrived back in Funchal some twelve hours after we had first caught the bus . |