Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 2 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 3 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 4 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 5 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 6 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 7 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 8 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 9 | Macca played as well as I 've seen in the first twenty minutes . |
| 10 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 11 | There 's actually another complaint this morning I 've had on the first floor of G P House . |
| 12 | Well I 've got to the first one |
| 13 | Now I 've got through the first round , it 's taken the pressure off me a bit . |
| 14 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
| 15 | In view of the answer that I have given to the first question this second question does not arise and it would be unwise for me to attempt to answer it on a hypothetical basis . |
| 16 | As I have said , I have quoted from the first page of the background paper , which is available from the Library . |
| 17 | One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society . |
| 18 | I mean , two of them seem as if they are referring back to something which has happened since the first two . ’ |
| 19 | The devaluation of sterling from September onwards and its significant effect on raw material costs put pressure on margins which has continued into the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 20 | Relations with the USA , which had improved during the first years of Rajiv Gandhi 's government , came under strain in 1987 due to the US decision to grant large military aid packages to Pakistan , including early warning surveillance aircraft , and to Indian fears of a Pakistani nuclear bomb . |
| 21 | In these units , themes which have emerged throughout the first two years receive a more considered and advanced analysis : Theories of Society , Political Ideals , Women , and the Ethics of Individual Responsibility . |
| 22 | There were , too , distinct signs of an improvement in orders as early as the fourth quarter of 1992 , which have continued in the first quarter of 1993 , the chairman , Viscount Weir , said in London yesterday . |
| 23 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 24 | Matter of of people who 'd died in the first world war . |
| 25 | Just a bit more about Camco second half is , given these little plus and minuses you 've had in the first , first half , what 's coming in the second ? |
| 26 | And more particularly in Appendix Three , you 've got for the first time , individual chief officers and general managers comments , for achieving a better equal opportunity profile in their department or unit . |
| 27 | Furious but civil , he had offered to go round to her flat to see her , an offer which she had declined with the first sign of decisiveness she had been heard to display . |
| 28 | Further shocks were to come : the reason behind Diana 's sometimes gaunt appearance was her battle with the binge-and-vomit eating disorder bulimia , from which she had suffered since the first year of her marriage . |
| 29 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 30 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |