Example sentences of "had the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The first card you turn over is the matching ace , so it seems that you have had the first strike of luck for you can clearly get the first pair . |
2 | Well the first one 's already had the first chance |
3 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
4 | All those who said they had had the first operation had an appropriate scar and ab absent gall bladder on ultrasonography . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | He says thousands of families have already been thrown into chaos and we 've had the first suicide as a result of the operations of the Child Support Agency . |