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The phrase "had first been" is grammatically correct and is used in written English.
It is typically used in the past perfect tense to indicate an action that occurred before another past action. Example: She had first been introduced to the concept of environmental conservation in high school, but she didn't fully understand its importance until she studied it in college.
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I had first been to the Barnes in January.
He had first been charged 10 years earlierr.
"(They) majored in the fields they had first been exposed to at Summer College.
I did not notice that the book had first been published in 1904.
The settlement had first been reported by Crain's New York Business.
The powers and uses of reason had first been explored by the philosophers of ancient Greece.
McCain was given a diagnosis of melanoma, for which he had first been treated in 1993.
Somersaulting looped track rides had first been attempted in Paris in the middle of the century.
The idea for the doll had first been presented to M.G.A. C.E.O.
In probing charisma Weber touched, sometimes explicitly, on themes that had first been broached by Nietzsche.
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