Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kendall can not rely on the likes of Barry Horne , who has not scored since the first day of the season , and youngster Billy Kenny to ease the burden on his goal-shy strikers . |
| 2 | Falconer , who made an impressive start to his Ayresome Park career , has not figured in the first team since a knee injury in the Rumbelows Cup first round against Bournemouth . |
| 3 | MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load ! |
| 4 | Includes every cricketer who has ever played in a first class match in the British Isles . |
| 5 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 6 | He had already scored in the first meeting at Roker Park . |
| 7 | Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place . |
| 8 | John Charlton had not moved since the first encounter . |
| 9 | The membership of the Commission comprised four members from each of Greece and Turkey , and three members from States that had not participated in the First World War . |
| 10 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |
| 11 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 12 | She had wanted to draw again , and to paint , and she had not wondered before the first class as to the group she would be joining . |
| 13 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 14 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 15 | When therefore I perceived that there were three species of liberty which are essential to the happiness of social life , religious , domestic and civil , and as I 've already written concerning the first , and the magistrates were strenuously active in obtaining the third , I determined to turn my attention to the second , or the domestic species . |
| 16 | Only Sidey had ever played in the first team . |
| 17 | The only consolation was that Newcastle and Sheffield Wednesday , whom he had predicted would still be in the Cup along with Arsenal , had also fallen at the first hurdle to lesser teams . |
| 18 | They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl . |
| 19 | Either way , she was looking forward to putting their plans into action with a relish she had n't felt since the first heady moment of signing the lease . |
| 20 | Stunned that he had n't known from the first moment that something was wrong with her . |
| 21 | Charles had completely forgotten about the first entrance of McWhirter . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've never got beyond the first two or three rounds . ’ |
| 23 | It was feeling a deep ache of loss for something she had never had in the first place . |
| 24 | The Brichardi have just bred for the first time and have a healthy brood of 20 or so fry . |
| 25 | We have also shown for the first time such treatment also decreases basal gastric acid secretion significantly . |
| 26 | I have partly dealt with the first argument . |
| 27 | The ‘ germ ’ of this story , I think , is the idea ( I do not know who first expressed it ) that couples of servants who apply for situations as man and wife have often met for the first time in the registry office . |
| 28 | If you have n't heard from the first within 28 days , write to find out why . |
| 29 | I hope that the reader will feel that I have satisfactorily dealt with the first . |