Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 2 | ST IVEL has come up with the first fresh yoghurt range especially made for young appetites . |
| 3 | Sausalito , California-based Autodesk Inc has come out with the first major product from its European Software Centre in Neuchatel , Switzerland : AutoCAD Release 11 for the IBM RS/6000 line of workstations . |
| 4 | That is the view of Northern Ireland Economy Minister Robert Atkins who has spoken out for the first time about Mrs Major , wife of his long time friend , the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |
| 7 | Countries opting for soft membership would have to put up with the first , and find substitutes for the second — for instance , by setting ( and hitting ) targets for money-GDP , using both fiscal and monetary policies . |
| 8 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 9 | Now look at one of the letters you should have left out of the first question . |
| 10 | It would n't have worked out with the first gentleman as it happens , because although he had a lovely smile , he was a ladies ' man and he did like drink too much . |
| 11 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 12 | Second , the Old English , descendants of settlers who had come over with the first wave of English conquest during the Middle Ages . |
| 13 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 14 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 15 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 16 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 17 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 18 | It had been knocked from its cradle when he had gone over with the first shot . |
| 19 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 20 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |