Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As I have said , I have quoted from the first page of the background paper , which is available from the Library . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The residents who have moved into the first houses are the envy of everybody . |
| 7 | Geldart drools with enthusiasm when he speaks of some of the players who have broken into the first team or are on the verge . |
| 8 | Fairly soon one realises that red means melodrama , and blue means romance , and you wonder if you have stumbled across the first romantic novel of the post-communist era . |
| 9 | But to judge something relevant to the choice of a spontaneously emerging goal as end , it is enough — as we have insisted from the first — that awareness of it does in fact act causally on the spontaneous inclination . |
| 10 | ‘ If the response we have received to the first phase continues we will embark on the creation of a ‘ mirror scheme ’ , ’ he said . |
| 11 | There are even special joys for women : the pride in learning a guaranteed way to keep the boots dry which , if performed behind waist-high bush , means ‘ you can casually and with dignity intact carry on a conversation with the rest of the camp ’ ; no more of the old ‘ search for a place to hide ( God forbid anyone should know we have to pee in the first place ) . ’ |
| 12 | Here we have stumbled on the first of many . |
| 13 | We have shown for the first time an inhibition of in vitro CCPR in normal and premalignant human rectal epithelium by vitamin D and its metabolites . |
| 14 | But you know we have to look beyond the first year or two , we have to look at what 's going to happen to that school over a much longer period of time , and quite frankly erm I would feel safer with erm what was called the big brother of the Local Authority . |
| 15 | Erm perhaps I can turn the the question on its head and and I think the way the County Council 's looked at it , what would be the implications of not providing for the needs of North Yorkshire , and that 's I think the approach that we have taken in the first instance , is to try and determine what the needs of North Yorkshire are and to borrow a phrase from Professor Lock , in strategic terms to look at er try to achieve full employment in North Yorkshire . |
| 16 | The exact timing of the sensitive period differs between species ; domestic chicks , for example , only follow objects they have seen during the first three days after hatching , whereas for mallard ducklings , the phase lasts for 10–15 days after hatching . |