Sentence examples for had first signed from inspiring English sources

In 2000, ExxonMobil, which had first signed a contract to extract oil in Chad in 1988, agreed to build a pipeline running through Cameroon to the Atlantic coast.

Although others felt she was still quite fragile and thin, Herb Alpert, who had first signed the Carpenters to A&M, saw Karen shortly after the New Year and recalled her looking terrific.

Composure and distribution: these are precisely the two qualities that Sir Alex Ferguson spoke about in De Gea when he had first signed him from Atletico Madrid, in the pre-season tour nearly two years ago in which he admitted that letting Petr Cech pass him by had always haunted him.

The 22-year-old has drawn high praise from Mourinho and looks set to be a key figure next season having first signed in January last year and spent last season on loan at Werder Bremen.

All of this creates an air of uncertainty this year for a player who has worn only one uniform and one number his entire career, having first signed with the team as a 16-year-old from the Dominican Republic.

The ex-Birmingham City midfielder, 25, who will join Town on 1 July, is to start his second spell at the club, having first signed on loan in 2008.

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I came back from there, did the national time trial championships week after on 21 May, had first signs of symptoms being back home about nine days before I went to the Bayern Rundfahrt in Germany.

Unexpectedly, though, a substantial number of children with obsessive-compulsive disorders have first signs of illness a few weeks after streptococcal infection strep throat.

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