Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] have first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the culmination of that mystique of rule which had first flowered in the Punjab under John and Henry Lawrence fifty years before , and whose objective basis in reality was now almost universally taken for granted . |
| 2 | After graduating from Sandhurst Military College with the coveted Sword of Honour he had first seen active duty in Korea where he suffered a serious leg injury while attempting to rescue a wounded colleague . |
| 3 | In our scope of registration I 'd first of all we show the accounts department as part of the company . |
| 4 | On May 4 President Najibullah lifted the national state of emergency which had first been imposed following the Soviet troop withdrawal in February 1989 [ see p. 36449 ; for extension of state of emergency in May and November see pp. 36656 ; 37043 ] . |
| 5 | People are brought up to believe that to be successful in science you have first to have your right cerebral hemisphere obliterated ; and the people ( like a lot of teachers ) who perpetrate this nonsense should be fried slowly in rancid yak fat . |
| 6 | In their defensive exchanges , they ceased to value what had first so attracted them to each other . |