Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am six-foot four , and , in order to sink a pint , I had to sit down first . |
| 2 | He had come out first of everyone in his early examinations , and worked constantly . |
| 3 | Master Butcher Howard Callaghan and shop manager Alan Dean who had picked up first prize for an impressive window display in a competition in Harrogate on Monday , spent yesterday cleaning up the mess . |
| 4 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 5 | He and Sir Brian had gone in first to stand shoulder to shoulder , their comrades around them , a fighting circle of steel slowly edging into the city . |
| 6 | Stephen had gone out first , scrambling up the shaft , putting all his weight this time on the rope and wondering what would happen , whether they would ever be found alive , if the rope came unfastened from the spur of rock to which they had tied it . |
| 7 | But there was something Forster had said before he died that Delaney had to check out first . |
| 8 | But then Hector was to blame too because Hector went they were coming round and we had to get out first , he promised us as the first houses would go up we would get back again |