Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I 've passed the first hurdle , ’ she breathed . |
| 2 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 3 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 4 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 5 | Now that she had taken the first steps , she was not so much afraid . |
| 6 | the first bit yeah you 're remembering the last bit when you 're remembering that you 've forgot the first bit . |
| 7 | The first card you turn over is the matching ace , so it seems that you have had the first strike of luck for you can clearly get the first pair . |
| 8 | Well once you 've got the first , give me the first one which did n't come out and then it 's easy . |
| 9 | Yes , once you 've got the first one . |
| 10 | Once you have made the first step towards finding out more about archaeology , it is likely that you will never turn back . |
| 11 | Once you have explored the first match — which you can do using the left and right arrow keys , press the Down arrow to find the next record ( pressing the up arrow goes to the previous record ) . |
| 12 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 13 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 14 | Professor Andrew Lyne and two colleagues , Matthew Bailes and Setnam Shemar , astronomers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom , announced in the British science journal Nature of July 24 that they had made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system . |
| 15 | On their first Christmas Day without mum , Princes William and Harry proved that they have learned the first lesson of royal duty . |
| 16 | After years of anticipation , the Taiwanese-backed NuTek USA Corp in Cupertino , California has finally come down to the wire with its Macintosh-compatible technology : the company claims that it has developed the first machine that emulates the Macintosh without requiring installation of Apple Computer Inc 's proprietary ROMs . |
| 17 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 18 | ‘ The Red what ? ’ said the Exec Director , pleased that he had deciphered the first word of the new code-name . |
| 19 | He spoke to the porters in English , because he was trying to forget that he had spent the first ten years of his life in Berlin . |
| 20 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 21 | On their way to Estoril in the private jet Kate was forced to admit to herself that he had won the first round . |
| 22 | Richard Cocco Senior at the Palisade Music Company would like the bass playing world to know that he has developed the first 4-wrap low B bass string , as part of the R. Cocco 5-string bass set . |
| 23 | So once he 's paid the first payment by the fifth of January . |
| 24 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 25 | ‘ I then waited to become pregnant until I 'd had the first two transfusions , ’ she says . |
| 26 | cos I 've got the first week off , but it 's just , I 'm just stuck for Tuesday and Friday of the second week , you 've got the Mayday holiday off and in the summer I 've got the first three full weeks of the summer holiday off |
| 27 | Brown Owl , moving quickly , placed Brownie after Brownie in position , until she had formed the first human letter : — |
| 28 | She worked steadily on , until she had finished the first coat . |
| 29 | ‘ If you had failed the first test you would now be dead . |
| 30 | cos if you 've missed the first couple of weeks ' worth or so erm |