Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at Thurso in Scotland that I 'd first seen surfers riding tubes . |
| 2 | So dismal was it that I thought first of Byron 's prophetic poem of the death of light , and then of the lands that lie north of the line of the Arctic Circle . |
| 3 | It was in those days , then , prompted by my natural admiration for the lady , that I had first taken to perusing her volumes in the library whenever I had an odd moment . |
| 4 | However , it was a D. Davidson that I rang first as the address was familiar . |
| 5 | It was on a similar mission seven months earlier that she had first met Darren . |
| 6 | By the time the crème brulée was served , she realized that James was n't the gentle , sensitive , vulnerable charmer that she had first imagined but a crashing bore . |
| 7 | O'Keeffe made it clear that she defined her art strictly as self-expression and indicated that she had first begun her formal training at the Art Institute of Chicago . |
| 8 | She loved to walk out into the villages where she would sit round the fire or outside a hut shelling peanuts with a family , so that she learned first hand many of the African customs and quickly mastered the language . |
| 9 | Pennycuick J held in Lord Inchrya that one had first to ascertain the nature of the payments according to the law governing the position , ie the law of the District of Columbia . |
| 10 | I 'm not sure that The Correspondent came first , no I 'm not sure that anybody came first . |
| 11 | The twelfth-century poet Gaimar 's tale that they went first to Denmark , and that there was a plot to restore them , may not be complete nonsense . |
| 12 | It is interesting and perhaps unusual that it developed first in politics but now is used more and more in commerce and industry . |
| 13 | And now an ache in his gut , that he thought first wind , then diarrhoea . |
| 14 | Sighvat was in Olaf 's service at the time , and his Vestrfararvísur ( Western Travel Verses ) name Earl Hakon , son of Earl Eric of Lade , as acting with Cnut , and speak repeatedly of money offered to Olaf 's men , while the Tøgdrápa of Thorarin Praise-Tongue , who apparently sailed with Cnut 's fleet , indicates that he went first to Denmark to assemble his ships in the Limfjord in Jutland , and then proceeded north along the Norwegian coast to Trondheim . |
| 15 | Grace writes that he studied first with a teacher he had met named Nina Runich ( an Austrian married to a Russian ) ; she used the stage name Nina Pavlochieva . |
| 16 | It was odd that he 'd first spoken to her in English when he could n't possibly have known … |
| 17 | Midani , the wealthy Lebanese who had always believed that he had first option should Edwards ever decide to sell , after trying to buy the club himself , insisted more than once : ‘ United must not be caused embarassment , ’ and seemed to be the one participant in what became an increasingly shabby affair who was conscious that great dignity was at stake . |
| 18 | Mr Masters was quite clear that he had first seen the blue BMW late on the Saturday evening , ten days before , pointing out that , while you could n't exactly complain , it had made access to his own forecourt space a little difficult , or at least when there was already another car on the forecourt , which there mostly was , that being Mrs Masters 's runabout . |
| 19 | Fonda was able to say that he had first tried LSD a couple of years earlier , and had also been a spasmodic user of marijuana — in between more prolific bouts of drinking vodka or scotch — since 1962 when he was turned on by Jim Mitchum at the Carlton Towers Hotel , in London . |
| 20 | Maidstone explained that he had first come to Italy after the First World War . |
| 21 | Having twice refused on the grounds that he had first to win Tangier and Ceuta ( which he accomplished in 1084 ) , Yusuf finally turned his attention to Spain at Motamid 's third desperate request . |
| 22 | Wordsworth himself recalled in old age that he had first met Coleridge , together with Southey , and Edith and Sara Fricker , at ‘ a lodging in Bristol ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was on those lonely walks that he had first had intimations of an essentially adult truth , that it is those who most love us who cause us the most pain . |
| 25 | With the meticulousness with which he was to become associated on each project , Dustin decided that he had first to get the voice of the 121-year-old man right . |
| 26 | There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me ’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of ’ . |
| 27 | Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him . |
| 28 | The authors do not acknowledge the source of Escoffier 's account , but recount that it was during his days as an army chef de cuisine at the siege of Metz in 1870 that he had first grasped the necessity of improving the techniques of canning food . |
| 29 | It was in the third week after Minch had gone that he had first noticed that one of the Men , older than the Keeper , regularly came to the benches that ranged along the path by the Cages , and sat down for a while . |
| 30 | It had been then , perhaps , that he had first realised his true feelings for her . |