Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [pron] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked him what was the first sentence he had ever learned in English . |
| 2 | For a first Mass it had certainly been a tough baptism . |
| 3 | There is little doubt that to have become obese in the first instance we have simply eaten too much of the wrong sorts of foods . |
| 4 | Chairman , thank , thank you very much indeed erm Chairman , I will in fact and er perhaps if I read that in the first instance I have n't circulated it erm if I read that the first instance it will set the of what I have to say . |
| 5 | First mention I 've actually seen in months . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's the first sandwich you 've ever made me that has n't got any paint on it . ’ |
| 7 | With the first stroke I have already reached the end , said Picasso . |
| 8 | She was the first pig I 'd ever met , and she set me thinking , and reading up on pigs . |
| 9 | Now the château was Sharpe 's home , the first home he had truly known . |
| 10 | It was the first funeral I had ever been to where there was genuine laughter . |
| 11 | We must be the first group they 've ever had with such an attitude . |
| 12 | The thing that hit me , really hit me , was that they are the first group who have really said anything serious , analytical , about housework . |
| 13 | If hopes are too high in the first place they have further to fall . |
| 14 | In the first place he had only approached Rufus because Rufus had a car . |
| 15 | In the first place she had always consistently opposed fashion shows for her company ; she did not approve of professional models wearing ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes since they were not representative of her real customers ; furthermore , she had moral objections to catwalk cavortings as being sexually provocative ; ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes were not designed with sexual provocation in mind . |
| 16 | It 's the first job I 'd ever had you see , and then erm I , I suppose my next job was erm recording the bus mileage . |
| 17 | ‘ From our very first meeting he has always told me that he would never do anything to put the Soviet Union 's security in danger — and he knows that I would never endanger our security . |
| 18 | Yeah , but I this will be the first match I have n't played this season . |
| 19 | Somehow we are sure that this is not the first diet you have ever bought , or indeed the first time you have tried to lose weight . |
| 20 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 21 | That was the first inkling we 'd ever had |
| 22 | He was the first person who 'd ever really bothered about her . |
| 23 | She said , ‘ She 's the first person I 've ever known die , in my life . ’ |
| 24 | That 's a point , erm first person I 've ever known to be bored with last night at the . |
| 25 | It was a turning point in their lives and the first contact they had ever had with such youngsters . |
| 26 | And er she wanted er you know she has visions of us filling the streets of from to with banners waving and the we asked for no banners in the first rally we had back in October because we did n't want it to be seen as some thing that had you know big sort of take over and everybody you know the Communist Party and the language people and er all the different factions being able to wave their banners you know , We support the Blaenau quarry men . |
| 27 | Returning to my seat after the second interval , I had decided that this was a first night which had somehow not ‘ taken off ’ and that all kinds of good intentions had somehow failed to coalesce , though they probably would later in the run . |
| 28 | ( During the lifetime of his first wife he had also had estate responsibilities at Banbury in Oxfordshire and Kirtling in Cambridgeshire . ) |
| 29 | Even even if he was n't accepted on a first occasion he 's probably had another two or three attempts elsewhere . |
| 30 | It was the first suit he had ever owned and three sizes too big . |