Example sentences of "i had [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
2 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
3 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
4 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
5 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
6 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |