Example sentences of "[verb] have the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ticketholder of the first ticket drawn has the first choice of artwork . |
| 2 | But there again , he never sent her to the really big houses because , as he said , if there was anything going , the servants would have had the first pick . |
| 3 | When it was lifted out of the water it was found to have the first metre of the entire hull section missing . |
| 4 | Motorola Inc says it expects to have the first version of its hand-held personal communicator on the market by the end of this year : the device , internally code-named the Personal Messenger , will be Motorola 's first product from its alliance with General Magic Corp : the hand-held device will initially handle data only , but will be able to transmit and receive messages and electronic mail from all current electronic mail systems ; the target price is a hefty $2,000 . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman does not seem to have the first idea of what happens at Social Affairs Councils . |
| 6 | All those who said they had had the first operation had an appropriate scar and ab absent gall bladder on ultrasonography . |
| 7 | He says thousands of families have already been thrown into chaos and we 've had the first suicide as a result of the operations of the Child Support Agency . |
| 8 | The first card you turn over is the matching ace , so it seems that you have had the first strike of luck for you can clearly get the first pair . |