Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Palace did deny a report that senior royal officials had admitted for the first time that the marriage was in difficulty . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Certainly in the case of Nicaragua , this strategy played an important part in undermining the undoubted popular support which the Sandinistas had enjoyed in the first part of the 1980s . |
| 4 | Most abuses had occurred within the first three months of the occupation , in response to protests against forced " Iraqization " . |
| 5 | Born in the last months of Queen Victoria 's reign and brought up in the Edwardian era , she encouraged her grandchildren to spend their childhoods much as she and her contemporaries had done before the First World War . |