Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fulham have been ordered by the FA to go ahead with their tie at Bristol City , even though flu has claimed most of the first team . |
| 2 | De La Rue , the security printing and payments systems group , has become one of the first companies to announce results under FRS 3 . |
| 3 | Billy Hamilton , who retired from Rentokil several years ago , [ formerly working with Pest Control in Belfast and still collecting debts for the company ] has become one of the first people in Northern Ireland to be presented with a commemorative medal from the Soviet authorities . |
| 4 | Paul has become one of the first fans to have his room decorated with the wallpaper . |
| 5 | A team of 12 journalism students has launched one of the first independent radio stations ( Radio Tartu ) in the former Soviet republic of Estonia . |
| 6 | He went meekly , and she wished that she 'd said that in the first place . |
| 7 | ‘ He should have done that in the first place , and I should have thought about what I was doing instead of just floating along with whatever he put to me . |
| 8 | The second must have got stuck at the first trees — or the driver had n't bothered to navigate the obstacle . |
| 9 | Unrepentant Lloyds said last night the error was all Helena 's — she should not have gone overdrawn in the first place . |
| 10 | A John Thomas hat-trick enabled Albion to take the aggregate score to six apiece with a 5-3 win at Bradford , while Palace won 3-2 having lost 2-1 in the first leg of their clash with second division basement dwellers , Leicester City . |
| 11 | There is little doubt that to have become obese in the first instance we have simply eaten too much of the wrong sorts of foods . |
| 12 | ‘ The truth is , I 've broken one of the first rules of being a doctor . |
| 13 | It would have given Northern Ireland breathing space ; at 1–0 there was still a trace of anxiety in their play and Latvia , for whom Popkov and Charando had looked dangerous in the first half were never totally out of it . |
| 14 | He was sworn into office on Jan. 14 , taking over from Vinicio Cerezo ( also a democratically elected civilian , of the Christian Democratic Party — PDCG — whose candidate had come third in the first round ) , together with his Vice-President and fellow evangelical , Gustavo Adolfo Espina Salguero . |
| 15 | Both were headed by Prof. R.B. Le Page , who had produced some of the first linguistic studies of Jamaican Creole about twenty years previously ( Le Page 1961 ; Le Page and De Camp 1960 ; Cassidy and Le Page 1980 , originally published 1967 ) . |
| 16 | By the middle of the thirteenth-century Milan 's ruling commune had lost its power , and the city had become one of the first to fall to the signori , the city lords . |
| 17 | She had spent most of the first hour of the journey deep in conversation with the Doctor , who had gone to the flight deck to check up on Sheldukher . |
| 18 | He had been boxing in South Africa for three years and , according to boxing historian Gilbert Odd , had remained unbeaten for the first two years ( 1978 , pp.18–19 ) . |
| 19 | Nothing had gone wrong with the first two pregnancies . |
| 20 | He should admit that his efforts have supplied few of the first 999 floors . |
| 21 | I ca n't undersa I ca n't understand how comes she 's got involved with the first ma guy to come along ? |
| 22 | While the two men have spent most of the first week concentrating on their acting , Isabella has been burdened by the special responsibility of the leading actress — the look . |
| 23 | Now we have to repeat that with the first team . ’ |
| 24 | I have read three of the first four issues and find it thoroughly enjoyable with lots of practical help and practical help is what I require . |