Example sentences of "[pron] have [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " May I have the first dance , Janet ? " |
| 2 | No word spoken before he said : " May I have the first dance ? " |
| 3 | Can I have the first part ? |
| 4 | Could I have the first question please ? |
| 5 | ‘ I had a first cousin called Lady Ursula Talbot who had an enormous nose . |
| 6 | I had a first class team of managers , with Eric Newton as head of the engineering section — he had been doing the job for years before I even joined the Branch — and Dick Westlake , who was a former colleague in KLM , as one Principal Inspector . |
| 7 | Following a telephone conversation in late February in which Mr. expressed possible BWB interest in collaborating on a project to repair certain sections of the towpath , I had a first site meeting with him on 5th March . |
| 8 | And that was a fortnight ago when I had the first scan . |
| 9 | I think that 's when I had the first nightmare … |
| 10 | Leaks were the flavour of the year in 1983 , but the trouble was that neither Ken Clarke nor I had the first idea what report this was meant to be as there were no plans , secret or otherwise , for privatization . |
| 11 | Now I had the first set of these dividers over in this country . |
| 12 | Another bonus arrived within a week , when I had the first glimpse from the sea of the opposite coastline of Koraloona , with its empty sandy beaches and the great dormant volcano of High Island rearing up behind it , while in the distance I could even make out Hodges , the copra island . |
| 13 | Well on a Monday okay I have an hour in the morning , I have the first hour in the morning and er oh God . |
| 14 | On Ferry Road , within sight of Fettes School 's preposterous spire and only minutes from the police HQ , I have the first cigarette of the day , not because I really want it , just to feel bad . |
| 15 | if she had the first sign of anything . |
| 16 | Meg , you had the first word you can have the |
| 17 | You have a first course and a second course and could call it all I do n't know what you call it really , I never do know what to call it all . |
| 18 | And then you have a first look , but you do n't have |
| 19 | Herrick tells me you have a first draft two weeks away from completion . |
| 20 | Once you have a first brood then the stage is set for repetitions . |
| 21 | You have the first line . |
| 22 | When you feel you have the first mode together , move on to the second and so on . |
| 23 | Can we have the first question again please ? |
| 24 | We had a first skirmish on that at the Council on Monday . |
| 25 | ‘ We had the first juke-box in the town after the war , the first knickerbocker glories and the first Pepsi-Colas . ’ |
| 26 | He said : ‘ It was at a meeting on January 17 — two days after we answered the status inquiry — that we had the first indication that the shop had decided to consult an insolvency expert . ’ |
| 27 | We had the first fridge in our section of the street ( he got it cheap — contacts ) but were late to get a television . |
| 28 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 29 | when we bought them , when we had the first lot of springs |
| 30 | ‘ We have a First Aid Room on the second floor , if the gentleman is n't feeling well . ’ |