Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we keep the speed fixed now we have Do the one I should have done first . |
| 2 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 3 | ‘ We should have looked first ! ’ he declared abjectly when all they could see of the scene below and beyond was of rooftops and forest shrouded in mist and rain . |
| 4 | In an ideal world the political framework and the broad strategy should have come first ; then the military men would have designed a plan to fit them . |
| 5 | Students at Rachel 's oxford college St Hilda 's say the family 's feelings should have come first . |
| 6 | It is not clear why the theft or robbery count should be considered before that of handling except that the theft or robbery must have come first in time . |
| 7 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 8 | Atherton might have gone first ball , lbw , but somehow survived , only to be hit on the helmet as he became airborne against Waqar . |
| 9 | It was interesting in the situation that he and Sam Torrance found themselves , as after Sam had hit his chip past and had the honour Gordon could have putted first . |
| 10 | Any core could have accreted first , thus introducing some inhomogeneous ( heterogeneous ) accretion , or it could have later separated . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought you 'd have phoned first , ’ she yawned . |
| 12 | Perhaps , if Pascoe had n't arrived , she would have gone first to her knees , then sat down , her tongue out like dead meat , with Zeno kneeling up behind her using his hands like someone binding a bale . |
| 13 | Would have gone first |
| 14 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 15 | If that had been the case then the much softer shells would have disintegrated first . |
| 16 | One might reasonably have expected that the " building " would have come first and then the things it housed . |
| 17 | But she would have telephoned first . |
| 18 | It would have taken first prize at the Policeman 's Ball . |
| 19 | I would have thought first of all we 've got to update what we 've got as it |
| 20 | and if I ca n't get want I want at the Famlingham Textile Centre which is excellent when I next need fabrics I shall come up , I will come up to London and I 'll go to Libertys , but I will have measured first of all to within an inch as to what I want because |
| 21 | Usually ( i.e. in the case of a sale of specific goods in a deliverable state , see Chapter 3 ) , property will have passed first to B ( i. e. at the time he made his contract ) . |