Example sentences of "first [noun] i have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , I 'll say this for you : you 're the first Scotsman I 've met who 's prepared to put his hand in his pocket for a round of drinks . ’ |
| 2 | Naturally , you can upgrade the processor , but this is the first PC I 've seen that has a socket for Intel 's yet-to-be-released Pentium 586 processor . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the first opportunity I 've had to get away from Josh and the director . |
| 4 | ‘ This is the first fella I have had in my family . |
| 5 | This is the first break I 've taken in over three years . ’ |
| 6 | SIR JACOB : " T would have been strange indeed if someone had not translated this fine flower from the dunghill to the garden , Madam , let me tell you you are the first lady I have seen who has exceeded expectation . |
| 7 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 8 | By the end of that first evening I 'd discovered that , however much of a rebel your younger sister might be , you were made of tougher , truer steel . ’ |
| 9 | I think it 's the first birdie I 've made there for about nine years , ’ he said . |
| 10 | But I think we should , it 's like today , where was I , Battersea area , I think and it 's the first shop I 'd seen that actually had Chinese model manikins in the window , I thought they were sw pretty unusual . |
| 11 | Blimey that 's the first picture I 've had there is n't it ? |
| 12 | You 're the first person I 've said that to who said come back to me and said yes . |
| 13 | You are the first person I 've told , apart from the self-help organisation , but you wo n't be the last . |
| 14 | ‘ In fact … ’ she swallowed , realisation dawning on her as she met Guy 's intent appraisal ‘ … you 're the first person I 've told … ’ |
| 15 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 16 | You are the first person I have told , Elinor . |
| 17 | It 's the first chance I 've had of spending a couple of months at home , leading a normal life and just doing things that are interesting to do . |
| 18 | However , erm this is the first chance I 've had to speak today so I ca n't take all the blame of the er , of the , of the late start , erm I do n't know whether it would make it any easier to the my colleagues on my right or my left erm to accept the Liberal resolution . |
| 19 | but make me laugh even now , she said the first , the first memories I 've got of new little boy that starting in he looked at this little boy , she said , so , so excited by said with this pure white hair and the |
| 20 | The welcome from son and wife was the first warmth I 'd felt in seven days . |
| 21 | The first leg of the first occasion I had flown horses from Heathrow was made bearable by a bottle of whisky and a regular itinerant groom . |
| 22 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
| 23 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 24 | ‘ I have to confess , you 're not the first woman I 've made love to . ’ |
| 25 | And of course And anyway , we got there , it was alright , and erm I had to fill this tractor , where it was , of course they 're going to make fun of me again , first morning I 'd got to get the tractor ready , and you know them , five gallon five gallon , things can happen at the time , and I have been had been supposed to be to get the hole at the top of the can , and not spill it you see . |
| 26 | I , I have n't been on but you 're the first people I 've told this to , I have been out with somebody who has been on |
| 27 | It was the first news I had heard that Robin Summers , shot down over Brest a few weeks before , was alive . |
| 28 | This was the first news I had had of them since they had left Maymyo a fortnight earlier . |
| 29 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 30 | My first exam I 've got is June the fourth . |