Example sentences of "first [vb past] [pron] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of ‘ dignity ’ in the course of my career , such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality . |
| 2 | Tony Yates , manager of Club Lucys , said he first heard he would have to close early when officers called at the club at 11.20pm on Saturday . |
| 3 | ‘ Because the flight path he was following when we first located him would have taken him to Ankara in Turkey , or some place pretty close by . |
| 4 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ The standard of his work deteriorated and that was when we first suspected he might have a problem . |