Example sentences of "[prep] first [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me , too , of the mines , and how some of the young boys were terrified of going down the pit for the first time , but had to go , as there was no other work for them ; and how at first they had been put to work beside their father , loading the coal he cut , until they had overcome their fear . |
| 2 | At first they had been successful in maintaining their " right " — even against the Young King — but when Henry II himself marched into Berry , the balance of power shifted abruptly . |
| 3 | At first it had been harrowing , but he had grown used to it . |
| 4 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
| 5 | At first it had been merely a matter of borrowing her mother 's scarves and veils , draping these around herself or twisting them into turbans and sashes . |
| 6 | At first it had been an irritation but now he had grown strangely accustomed to it — a break from the monotonous silence that filled the prison . |
| 7 | At first it had been his physical beauty , then the cast of his mind . |
| 8 | At first it had been a shock and had made his heart beat faster . |
| 9 | She thought at first it had been shot . |
| 10 | At first it 'd been : ‘ if he marries again . ’ |
| 11 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 12 | It had , however , been the only one that Rory had been able to lay hold of , and at first he had been proud of it . |
| 13 | At first he had been simply bowled over by her enormous beauty , her laughter , her charm . |
| 14 | Who at first she thought was not Jim . |
| 15 | Topaz was soon to learn that the colourful and derogatory remarks which passed between Angela and Oswin meant nothing , but at first she had been startled . |
| 16 | At first she had been shy and reluctant — until she discovered the power over him this could give her — that she could always command his interest and attention by resurrecting some memory long buried by forgetfulness and , sometimes , shame . |
| 17 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
| 18 | A few yards up the hill , on my left , was a turning which at first I thought was just the entrance to a field . |