Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] he have [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Poincaré wrote gloomily in his diary : ‘ Encore une défaillance ! ‘ , revealing that this was not the first news he had received of a lapse of morale at Verdun . |
| 2 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 3 | Miss Honiton 's book contained , as a frontispiece , the first image he had seen of Christabel , a brownish , very early photograph , veiled under a crackling , protective translucent page . |
| 4 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 5 | Last night , a detective investigating the theft said that although this type of crime was becoming increasingly prevalent , it was the first time he had heard of a baby being used as a decoy . |
| 6 | Last night a detective investigating the theft said that , although this type of crime was becoming increasingly prevalent , it was the first time he had heard of a baby being used as a decoy . |