Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six hours from the start , in a wide lush valley , Fusil had placed his first checkpoint . |
| 2 | We watched them disappear into the dusk as we anchored at the little island of Likangloe , where we had witnessed our first python hunt . |
| 3 | It was that young fool of a student Bacci , who stood up stiffly at the sight of the Marshal who had witnessed his first embarrassingly unsuccessful attempt at being a policeman . |
| 4 | She hurried out of the room , before the astonished Victorine had completed her first sentence of protest . |
| 5 | For instance , when I first started writing , and had completed my first novels , I was not allowed to sign a contract for it . |
| 6 | By then the Goulds had received their first batch of letters . |
| 7 | These children were eligible to enter the trial if they were between 37 and 43 weeks of age and if their immunisation record indicated that they had received their first dose of OPV between 6 and 12 weeks of age and their second and third doses at 4 to 6 week intervals . |
| 8 | ‘ Railway milk ’ had received its first boost with an outbreak of cattle plague in the mid 1860S which had seriously restricted urban milk production . |
| 9 | The High Elves had won their first major victory . |
| 10 | At 5.45 pm Gower pulled Mushtaq for two and England had won their first Test against Pakistan for 10 years , and levelled the series , with one to play . |
| 11 | The insult was particularly deep because the year before , Cagliari had won its first and only Italian championship . |
| 12 | He had steadily improved his performance in the shadow of Jochen Rindt and , with Rindt 's death at Monza in 1970 , he had inherited the mantle of Number One driver and , by 1972 , had won his first championship at Lotus . |
| 13 | I had won my first major title . |
| 14 | Twice I asked Ward about this , the first time just after we had come out of the cloud on the eastern slope of the pass and had caught our first glimpse of Cajamarca far away in the valley below , and then again when we stopped at the Baños del Inca to ask our way , the hot springs steaming beside the public baths . |
| 15 | He had forgotten our first fleeting encounter . |
| 16 | The clash between the demands of the Welfare State and Britain 's desire to regain her position as a great power had claimed its first victim ! |
| 17 | Of these the most important was Hartley , after whom he had named his first son . |
| 18 | It was confirmed in September 1990 that Dounreay had secured its first new contract for reprocessing with the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt research reactor in Braunschweig to reprocess 39 spent fuel rods . |
| 19 | Eleanor 's husband had secured his first lectureship , and her first novel had been acclaimed in literary circles . |
| 20 | Some days later Gwenellen told me he had attended his first follow-up clinic two days previously . |
| 21 | One per cent of the sample had puffed their first fag by the age of four , but the bulk of experimentation is carried out by 9–12 year olds . |
| 22 | And she still remembered how , as the car began to climb into the lake land hills , she had seen her first mountain — a sharp blue crag that , outlined against the sky , had made her sit up and stare . |
| 23 | He had seen his first Rottweiler in the UK whilst visiting a police dog training centre and he was greatly impressed with his working ability . |
| 24 | She was stiff and tense in every muscle but she had done her first good day 's work since the discovery of the murder . |
| 25 | By the time it was all over , Norman had done his first mix , a poppy version of Eric B and Rakim 's ‘ I Know You Got Soul ’ which sampled The Jackson Five 's ‘ ABC ’ with a typical lack of concern for cool . |
| 26 | It was in that ugly repository of polished pine , acoustic tiles and garish , sentimental stained glass that he and his wife had been married , and in a flat in the rectory , living above the parish priest , that they had made their first home . |
| 27 | Now that they had made their first move , their first real move , they would not give up until Jack Stone did what he was supposed to do : start talking . |
| 28 | They had made their first venture into the quicksand that Vietnam was to become . |
| 29 | As the train drew near she looked out for Rough Stones , the house up on the hillside where they had made their first home ; but it was night , and all she saw was a glimmer that could as well have been a shepherd 's lantern . |
| 30 | He felt a sharp twinge of guilt now for not taking the trouble to visit , but William 's family had moved to a better neighbourhood when William 's mum had made her first million , and Preston had gradually lost touch . |