Example sentences of "have [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered the fights she had had to keep Eve in the first place , when so many other solutions were being offered . |
| 2 | The Democratic Convention also won the mayoralties of the important cities of Brasov , Constanta , Ploiesti , Sibiu and Arad ( having won Timisoara in the first round , with 64 per cent of votes ) . |
| 3 | She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises . |
| 4 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 5 | In the following month the Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister , Kunihiko Saito , had visited Moscow for the first working-level negotiations on the dispute since the termination of the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
| 7 | After all , she had signed Sting in the first place ( she had even given him a list of music-business lawyers to consult at the time , but he had used the Newcastle lawyer because he was cheaper ) . |