Example sentences of "the first [noun] we have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 2 | you 're the first person we 've seen , right , how you gon na deal with that ? |
| 3 | This is the first test we have carried out on a garden blower vac . |
| 4 | This was the first opportunity we had to try out the new personalisation facility with the agents ’ mailing . |
| 5 | Numerous questions have been asked in the House about the police national computer , but to my knowledge this is the first opportunity we have had in recent times to discuss wider issues . |
| 6 | ‘ This is the first election we have had since the Berlin Wall came down , ’ says Andrea Borri , a Christian Democrat MP from Parma , addressing an incontro of hoteliers in the spa town of Salso Maggiore . |
| 7 | Mr. Beloff submits that the first question we have to answer is : is there any known rule of natural justice that a person who is not the subject of an administrative decision should nevertheless have the right to make representations before the decision is made ? |
| 8 | The application by Mr. Wadsworth on behalf of the appellants to adduce fresh evidence before this court is for the purpose of explaining the appellants ' apparently defiant behaviour towards the judge , and the first question we have to address our minds to is whether that evidence should be admitted . |
| 9 | I think I see one problem with , we 've put site investigation and flagged the price I think , whereas if we 'd said that we require site investigation work to be undertaken by the project manager , we 've really got to decide the level of site investigations , so that in the first instance we 've got ta approach the soil mechanics and determine from them what , what we need from them . |
| 10 | ‘ We recorded it because it was the first song we 'd written , ’ says Mike , founder member of the band . |
| 11 | M : it is — it is quite good they 've certainly kept within the + em + + preserved it reasonably well or conserved it but we were up in Aberdeen this year for a holiday and we were staying right within the University complex there in Old Aberdeen+ and + oh some of the buildings there are beautiful really they really are nice + but er I was quite impressed with it — it 's the first holiday we 've had up there + |
| 12 | Well , this is the first time we 've heard of him here in Switzerland . |
| 13 | Since this is an equal opportunities column , we must also report ( on Diary Day 17 ) that this is the first time we 've mentioned the Durham constituency . |
| 14 | It 's the first time we 've held the event because we wanted something special for the Centenery . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've had a patient like this , ’ said Nurse Jean-Claude Auge yesterday . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've had a patient like this , ’ Nurse Jean-Claude Auge said yesterday . |
| 17 | This is the first time we 've had a regular monthly feature in the magazine just for Silver electronics . |
| 18 | Garage boss Trevor Cave said : ‘ It 's the first time we 've had a pilot come here to refuel . ’ |
| 19 | For the first time we 've had to get our heads down and look at what we 're doing . |
| 20 | ‘ This is the first time we 've had ones like this for quite a while . ’ |
| 21 | This is the first time we 've had to do this interceptor cos I did n't even know it was in and I do n't think Dick did . |
| 22 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 23 | ‘ This is the first time we 've issued a warning because of violence on the highway , ’ an American AA spokesman said . |
| 24 | ‘ That was the first time we 'd met . ’ |
| 25 | It was the first time we 'd had proper monitors on stage — which meant it was the first time John heard his own voice . |
| 26 | It was the first time we 'd returned to any location and I thought it must be a good sign . |
| 27 | But when I phoned her ( at a ‘ safe ’ house ) for this article , it was the first time we 'd spoken directly since the filming . |
| 28 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 29 | Visits supervisor Jenny Wallace said of the group : ‘ This was the first time we had welcomed a party from the Salvation Army . |
| 30 | This was the first time we had returned to Eggleston Burn since a summer visit in search of the Grass of Parnassus and butterwort that grow in its boggy flushes . |