Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose that 's because they had to kill him first . |
| 2 | His defence was that of self-defence ; he alleged that the victim had attacked him first . |
| 3 | He said Mr Hawthorne had attacked him first , striking him with the crowbar on the hand . |
| 4 | Lorton had met him first in Beirut where he ran a short-lived but lucrative business selling the same medical supplies to more than one purchaser . |
| 5 | When Rostov had noticed them first , they had been deep in animated conversation — a conspiratorial group of people who were the least likely , considering all the circumstances , to be found in close and apparently friendly contact with one another . |
| 6 | Ludens saw , on top of a closed suitcase in a corner , the curious light-brown cap which Marcus had been wearing when Ludens had seen him first , through the window of Red Cottage . |
| 7 | When she had seen him first , she had marked him as a " bully " , one of those who kept the brothel girls in line . |
| 8 | Nora had seen him first and was already running far dear life , not caring about her bag or the bicycle . |
| 9 | She could see nothing unless he had seen it first . |
| 10 | An air of antiquity hung over that pathway , which , followed to its logical end , ran down to the river , as if the ancient Britons had used it first and it would go on being used even after the Bomb fell . |
| 11 | It was a killer , but we had to do it first . |
| 12 | Jamaica indicated another approach to the art of colonization , in which the government took valuable colonies away from Europeans who had reached them first . |
| 13 | The bright light — this was what had struck them first — issued from an old street lamp , leaning at a crazy angle , rather suggesting an amateur production of Tales of Hoffmann , fitted , in place of glass , with sheets of mauve plastic , and trailing a long cable which disappeared down the companion . |
| 14 | If only you had read it first — as at least six people did without realising . |