Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] the [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power lead from the transformer has to go to the keyboard first and a short lead from here connects to the PCB . |
| 2 | At that moment there came a faint scratching from the box I 'd built in the corner last evening for the pigeon . |
| 3 | In consequence , I was particularly disappointed you were not able to accept the invitation I 'd extended via the boys last year . |
| 4 | Clearly his gentler behaviour when he 'd returned to the hut last night had been an aberration . |
| 5 | She knew what he was like , how he never did anything without having thought about the repercussions first . |
| 6 | Other problems obscure the issue ; whoever killed Alexander must surely have got to the ferry first , crossed the Firth of Forth , knew the route the King was to take , carried out their plan and got away , hoping the King 's companions would not discover this . |
| 7 | The horrifying thing about , for instance , Robert Nichols 's review in the Observer for 11 January 1920 — ‘ Mr Pound , indeed , serves his lobster â l'Américaine ’ — is that it could perfectly well have appeared in the Observer last Sunday . |
| 8 | It was n't the sort of thing he would have put on the wall next to his bed but it was a lot more acceptable than Mr Pilkington in a black cowl . |
| 9 | Retail sales volumes are also expected to have come off the boil last month after rising strongly over the past quarter . |
| 10 | Commander Laurence was thought to have arrived on the estate last night . |
| 11 | Barney had flown to the States last Thursday , and she was driving to London later that Tuesday to the flat where he and Cara lived . |
| 12 | From the letter Brian had received from the newspaper last November , we knew that his sisters and friends were working for him and we had also heard that Jill , Nick Toksvig and other friends were active on my behalf . |
| 13 | One young constable had come to the house last year when they had been burgled and , very laboriously , had written the details of the crime into a book . |
| 14 | It was since that child had come into the house last night . |
| 15 | Though she was only a part-time whore who ‘ had to stand at the washtub next day . ’ |
| 16 | The British still believed themselves to retain ‘ shared values ’ which the debate over a national educational curriculum in the 1980s helped stimulate anew , as it had done in the French Third Republic after 1875 . |
| 17 | She rummaged through the assorted pile , looking for her new lipstick and perfume , and spotted the mail which she had collected from the postman first thing , on her way to the shops . |
| 18 | If Club Med or Universal Studios had thought of the idea first and sited it in Europe , it would probably have attracted government subsidies . |
| 19 | Croydon-born Ted Harding had played for the Palace first team as early as October 1942 and he became the longest-playing survivor of our 1946–47 Football League side , for he was still appearing for us in April 1953 . |
| 20 | Mansell , who had led from the record 14th pole position start of his season , had been resisting persistent challenges from Senna before the pair tangled . |
| 21 | Industry leaders say two salmon farms had to call in the receivers last week and others will have to follow suit unless the European Union takes action . |
| 22 | Industry leaders say two salmon farms had to call in the receivers last week and others will have to follow suit unless the European Union takes action . |
| 23 | Murray , he alleged , then had gone to the bothy next door where he had injected three men with heroin . |
| 24 | More than 300,000 Hindus had converged on the town last week to destroy the temple . |
| 25 | I sank into a squashy chair not caring whether we were on fire or not , it had to get through the water first . |
| 26 | Rita Quick reported that the Teacher Training Course had reached the stage when the first intake of students would soon be completing their training and three had qualified in the examination last November . |
| 27 | So the Lib Dems , somewhat belatedly , have joined in the game first played with such effect by the Conservatives and Saatchi & Saatchi in the run-up to the 1979 election with Saatchi 's ‘ Labour Is n't Working ’ poster , and taken to new heights in the 1987 campaign by Labour with Hugh Hudson 's memorable ‘ Kinnock : the Movie ’ party political broadcast . |
| 28 | When you have someone in pain and a child who wants to play , you have to deal with the pain first . |
| 29 | Erm here y'are we 've got a lad with a kite it 's fixed on the ground well let's say let's say it 's fixed on the ground first of all and erm we 're trying to find out how high it is and it 's directly over this point which is erm and we do n't we do n't know . |
| 30 | However , they have to get past the door first . |