Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 32 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 33 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 34 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 35 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 36 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 37 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
| 38 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 39 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 40 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 41 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 42 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 43 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 44 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 45 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
| 46 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 47 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 48 | Fifty people ( the other thirty had disengaged themselves at the first mention of Dickens ) were now taking tea in the gardens of the Albion Hotel under the shelter of parasols . |
| 49 | ‘ I kept sending the demands back and when I went in I was told not to worry , they had to send them to the last known address . |
| 50 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 51 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 52 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 53 | He claimed a British TV cameraman had distracted him during the second run , ruining his concentration and his chances of a top-three finish . |
| 54 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 55 | Causes of change are many — the government , the unions , OPEC , the Argentines , company mergers , new brooms , technological change , recession , unemployment , legislation , EEC — you name it , you 've experienced it in the last few years . |
| 56 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 57 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 58 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
| 59 | Walking slowly up and down the old stone terrace , Laura tried to empty her mind — to banish the sick feelings of fear and apprehension which had haunted her during the last week . |
| 60 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |