Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [pron] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's unusual is n't it , because I always think , I mean I , this is really only about the second watch I 've ever had good one . |
| 2 | You 'll have to bear with me David , I think you 're only the second person I 've ever had , if you 'll excuse the expression , in this studio . |
| 3 | It is the second role which has recently come into greater prominence . |
| 4 | Midway through the second week she had almost doubled the number of finished models that hung from the rails in the carefully locked cupboard . |
| 5 | He was only the second man she had ever slept with . |
| 6 | Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim , on the other hand , was only the second novel he had ever written , and he has since admitted that he was glad that the first was not published . |
| 7 | I am aware that , I am aware of actually two people in the second year who have never used it so far . |
| 8 | So I held my breath when conductor En Shao took the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra through the fastest fourth movement of Tchaikovsky 's 4th symphony I have ever heard , wondering what he would do with the resonations . |
| 9 | By the mid-nineteenth century it had already extended across the whole social spectrum . |
| 10 | She asked him what was the first sentence he had ever learned in English . |
| 11 | We sat on its terrace overlooking the harbour , watching the sky blush rose-red and devouring plum oysters , crabs , and langoustines caught that same day — and the first snails I have ever had that did not taste like bits of black rubber boot fried in garlic and olive oil . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | First mention I 've actually seen in months . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's the first sandwich you 've ever made me that has n't got any paint on it . ’ |
| 15 | With the first stroke I have already reached the end , said Picasso . |
| 16 | She was the first pig I 'd ever met , and she set me thinking , and reading up on pigs . |
| 17 | Now the château was Sharpe 's home , the first home he had truly known . |
| 18 | We must be the first group they 've ever had with such an attitude . |
| 19 | The thing that hit me , really hit me , was that they are the first group who have really said anything serious , analytical , about housework . |
| 20 | If hopes are too high in the first place they have further to fall . |
| 21 | In the first place he had only approached Rufus because Rufus had a car . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was the first diet she 'd ever tried and it made her feel good about herself for the first time , too . |
| 26 | That was the first inkling we 'd ever had |
| 27 | She said , ‘ She 's the first person I 've ever known die , in my life . ’ |
| 28 | That 's a point , erm first person I 've ever known to be bored with last night at the . |
| 29 | It was a turning point in their lives and the first contact they had ever had with such youngsters . |
| 30 | ( During the lifetime of his first wife he had also had estate responsibilities at Banbury in Oxfordshire and Kirtling in Cambridgeshire . ) |