Example sentences of "have [verb] the first [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can I just ring her out of the blue and tell her that her daughter has married the first Italian she 's met , without telling any of us ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You would n't think it so unexpected if you 'd seen the first nightclub I bought . ’ |
| 3 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 4 | It was a lame apology , but as she plunged into the cooler shadow of the house she knew she 'd used the first excuse which sprang to mind . |
| 5 | We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there . |
| 6 | From Titron had come the first man who could withstand radiation , be it from a bomb , or in deep space . |
| 7 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 8 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 9 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 10 | I 've got the first issue which I bought at the away match at the Arse earlier on . |
| 11 | You 've got the first stanza which is four lines , has got five lines has four lines ca n't see straight the first stanza has one sentence and it ends at the end of the stanza but then you have one , two , three , four , five more stanzas and you do n't get a full stop until the last stanza half way through . |
| 12 | And we talked of the Red Fort and how Pakeezah had cried the first time she went around it as a schoolgirl . |
| 13 | They were the same colours-the same jewels — as those he had worn the first time they had met . |
| 14 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 15 | Yet when he had finished the first thing she said was , ‘ But you have n't really talked of the most important thing — the other eagles who were with you . |
| 16 | When the food taster had stepped up to the table to perform his normal duties , the T'ang had waved him away and , picking up his chopsticks , had taken the first mouthful himself . |
| 17 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 18 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 19 | Okay , now it 's got two versions , it 's got the first version which is a short version okay ? |