Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE policeman whose hand was sewn back on after it was horrifically severed by a Samurai sword has spoken publicly for the first time of his ordeal . |
| 2 | In conclusion , this book has brought together for the first time the work of all the main researchers and provides a motivating set of reviews for any interested scientist . |
| 3 | One of the most intriguing of evolutionary clues is the close chemical similarity between many hormones and the substances that function within the nervous system as neurotransmitters , suggesting that perhaps the second group , the neurotransmitters , may have developed evolutionarily from the first . |
| 4 | They meet the Turkish champions Galatasary having drawn three-all in the first leg of their second round tie at Old Trafford . |
| 5 | They meet the Turkish champions Galatasary having drawn three-all in the first leg of their second round tie at Old Trafford . |
| 6 | She should never have gone there in the first place . |
| 7 | And then I did something even more stupid than the having gone there in the first place . |
| 8 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 10 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 11 | His main findings were that 51 per cent had left employment in the destination area at some stage during the twelve-month period , most of these had returned to their area of origin and that 75 per cent of those who left the destination area had done so within the first ten weeks . |
| 12 | The income from customs dues , which had risen sharply in the first year of the reign , thanks to Mary 's reforms , was remarkably sluggish thereafter . |
| 13 | The Polytechnic had argued convincingly in the first round that to have done so then would have simply involved the NAB in steering its ‘ service ’ work around . |
| 14 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 15 | But all the first-year students had arrived together on the first day of term and sought out the one fixed event in the university calendar , the Freshmen 's Fayre . |
| 16 | At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house . |
| 17 | By the late 1930s the argument had swung emphatically towards the first of these two aspects of the idea . |
| 18 | He had gone halfway across the first field when he heard a cry behind him . |
| 19 | Corporate partnerships in engineering , electronics and computing , especially involving West Germany which accounted for 120 such partnerships , had increased sharply in the first half of 1990 . |
| 20 | Sellafield 's Assistant Director , Projects and Decommissioning , , presented the prizes and paid tribute to organisers who had worked tirelessly from the first tee-off at 7.30 am to the presentation of the final raffle prize at 10.30 pm . |
| 21 | Embarking on a spell of 10 games in 25 days , which will decide their Second Division fate , Sunderland let slip a 2–1 advantage they had obtained early in the first half . |
| 22 | Then she brought him her account book , which she had kept faithfully from the first day of opening her house , and showed him the state of things . |
| 23 | They drifted apart as casually and amicably as they had drifted together in the first place , with no ill-will on either side . |
| 24 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 25 | OMEGA products have performed well in the first half of the year achieving significant growth in volume compared with last year . |
| 26 | THE PARENTS of murdered toddler Jamie Bulger have spoken publicly for the first time about their tragedy and their new hopes for the birth of another child . |
| 27 | THE parents of toddler James Bulger have spoken publicly for the first time since their son 's tragic death in February . |
| 28 | It is time to recognise the last three phases — currently we have concentrated primarily on the first phase . |
| 29 | Athletes who have trained normally through the first two trimesters have delivered normal babies . |
| 30 | Still , Potter said that as ‘ sales , profitability and liquidity have progressed well in the first quarter and the outlook is good ’ , the board is recommending an increase in the final dividend to 1.5 pence from 1.4 pence per share last time . |