Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seaman should have saved the first goal , but did make a two world class saves against Berkamp and Rikaard . |
| 2 | We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there . |
| 3 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 4 | He might have missed the first onslaught of punk , but he caught a lot of its stylish offsprings , especially Postcard Records ' Orange Juice and Josef K. He was smitten with the sound of rhythm guitars meshed together to form pop melodies and was beginning to realise precisely how he wanted his own band to sound . |
| 5 | As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour . |
| 6 | I could n't go without the gear , so I 'd have missed the first day . |
| 7 | ‘ I may have to miss the first game but I 'm hoping to get myself a boot made for my left foot with a steel plate in it to protect the toe so that I can practice as soon as I get to India . ’ |
| 8 | And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore . |
| 9 | Visitors may have drawn the first prototypes , for some purpose from to themselves . ’ |
| 10 | He would have become the first show jumper to win more than £1 million in prize money : at present his total earnings are about £50,000 short of that . |
| 11 | Lawrence would have preferred the first leg on Sunday , March 1 . |
| 12 | But although the saintly Tit for Two Tats would have won the first tournament if it had been submitted , it did not win the second . |
| 13 | But there again , he never sent her to the really big houses because , as he said , if there was anything going , the servants would have had the first pick . |
| 14 | He says now that if he 'd known what it would involve he would have taken the first plane out of town , but I was hugely relieved when he agreed . |
| 15 | BY the time you read this article we shall have completed the first training workshop on T.Q.M. designed for directors and a number of senior managers . |
| 16 | When the Guggenheim Museum reopens on 28 June , Thomas Krens , its director , will have realised the first stage in his ambitious plan of expansion , seeking to establish new stations in North Adams , Massachusetts , Bilbao ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) and Salzburg , and to enlarge The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice . |
| 17 | Erm so federalism is a fairly important principle in American government and that principle , essentially , is , and most of you I hope will have done the first year course politics and policy making where I talked about federalism in general terms that federalism is based upon the notions that in the same territory you can have more than one government and that those governments er are of equal status . |
| 18 | But one will have taken the first step , and the second and the third , towards providing readers with pleasant entertainment . |
| 19 | You will have to pay the first £75 of the cost if the repair or replacement is carried out by any other repairer . |
| 20 | You will have to pay the first £75 of the cost if the repair or replacement is carried out by any other repairer . |
| 21 | You will have to pay the first £75 of the cost if the repair or replacement is carried out by any other repairer . |
| 22 | If your car is lost , stolen or damaged , you will have to pay the first £100 of the cost . |
| 23 | If your car is lost , stolen or damaged , you will have to pay the first £100 of the cost . |
| 24 | If your car is stolen or damaged as a result of theft or attempted theft you will have to pay the first £100 of the cost . |