Example sentences of "she have first [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the day , not long afterwards , when she 'd first heard someone call her father crazy . |
| 2 | That was when she 'd first decided to try to make up to her father for what he 'd lost . |
| 3 | Mr Gibbon had been an industrialist whose firm had employed the ad agency which Aunt Ilsa had worked for when she 'd first moved to London . |
| 4 | When she 'd first moved in she had n't cared about anything , certainly not her surroundings — they had been the least of her problems — and if the villagers had n't so kindly donated her furnishings she 'd probably still be existing in empty rooms . |
| 5 | You know when er the fir when we went up to Edith 's , when she 'd first moved in , for |
| 6 | The big library was where she 'd first met him . |
| 7 | And for the second time since she 'd first met him , he turned on his heel and left her , his blistering words still seeming to echo in the very air around her . |
| 8 | There was a good , steady wage , and a proper job was more than she had ever hoped for when she 'd first noticed the advertisement written in felt-tip in the corner of one of the windows . |
| 9 | In here , he seemed younger than she 'd first assumed . |
| 10 | Even Benny had looked green when she 'd first seen it , and Benny had had time to get used to the idea . |
| 11 | But oh , he had set her heart to racing the instant she 'd first seen him . |
| 12 | Starting to panic , she turned her bag upside-down — and the situation was a great deal worse than she 'd first feared . |
| 13 | Somehow she doubted whether sharing with Sandra the fact that she already did regret the day she 'd first laid eyes on Matthew would be helpful to anyone . |
| 14 | When she 'd first qualified in forensic medicine he 'd been a young sergeant . |
| 15 | Such dreams were defeated by the means she 'd first thought would make it possible for her baby to be returned to her . |
| 16 | At the time she 'd put that pass down to a reflex action of a man who could n't let any opportunity pass him by , but now she was beginning to have doubts that he was as shallow as she 'd first thought . |
| 17 | ‘ I have a question , ’ whispered the penguin , feeling as small as the day she 'd first slid into the waves . |
| 18 | Very fat , stouter even than when she 'd first arrived , with a great soft moon face and little spectacles which looked lost . |
| 19 | Isabel looked up at him quickly , startled anew as she realised he was much younger than she 'd first supposed . |
| 20 | Finally she returned to the information desk where she 'd first encountered him the previous day , and found a pretty young woman sitting there stacking up guide books on Dublin . |
| 21 | She went in the opposite direction from the rock drawings , her planned destination when she had first conceived her scheme . |
| 22 | She began to feel young and amazingly pretty , like she had felt all those years ago when she had first emerged from the chrysalis of self-conscious adolescence to spread her butterfly wings . |
| 23 | O'Keeffe made it clear that she defined her art strictly as self-expression and indicated that she had first begun her formal training at the Art Institute of Chicago . |
| 24 | It was strange , she thought , that her physical response to shock should be the same now as it had been after Hugo was killed , so that to her present grief was added a grief for him as keen , as new as when she had first heard that he was dead . |
| 25 | The play in which she had first appeared was still running ; its clumsy comedy appealed to the audiences who came here . |
| 26 | But these were crude , ill-formed creatures compared to those she had first made . |
| 27 | It was on a similar mission seven months earlier that she had first met Darren . |
| 28 | Here she had first met Ion Manescu who had taken her under his wing — she was an invaluable conduit as to what was going on in Moscow and sympathetic to the Romanian régime . |
| 29 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 30 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |