Example sentences of "have [verb] on [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Government has embarked on the first ever strategy for health . |
| 2 | The main debate within planning has focused on the first of these types of development . |
| 3 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 4 | Ideally , take another flight straight away so that you can master any difficulties you may have experienced on the first flight . |
| 5 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 6 | Among the passengers was Mr. W. H. Troake , former Stores Superintendent of Croydon Corporation Tramways , who is said to have ridden on the first electric car in Croydon . |
| 7 | Above him , Jimmy had stopped on the first landing and was looking back . |
| 8 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 9 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 10 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 11 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
| 12 | He also took a stick out of the packet of Edinburgh rock he had bought on the first day . |
| 13 | There 's actually another complaint this morning I 've had on the first floor of G P House . |
| 14 | Every evening he would come down wearing the black cashmere jacket he had worn on the first night , and in a mood that was somehow expectant . |
| 15 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
| 16 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 17 | Vargas Llosa , who had led on the first round on April 8 [ see p. 37371 ] , now won only 2,713,442 ( 33.92 per cent ) . |
| 18 | The choreographer was Onna White , who had worked on the first musical version of a Charles Dickens book , Oliver ! , the 1968 British film starring Ron Moody and Oliver Reed — for which she won a special Oscar — and had staged Half a Sixpence in New York , featuring Tommy Steele . |
| 19 | What if Mr Whitelaw , the heir — apparent , had stood on the first leadership ballot in 1975 and won , as many think he would have ? |
| 20 | The floods had extinguished on the first stroke of the eleventh hour and I was sat watching the lightning fluttering like an electric city on the blink behind Gorsley Wood . |
| 21 | Here we have stumbled on the first of many . |