Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun sg] have first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But analysts pointed out that the credit had first been announced in the second quarter of last year . |
| 2 | It was during that holiday that the notion had first come to Melissa of setting a novel in the region . |
| 3 | The proposed date of entry is November 1988 , still feasible because the developer continued with early work because , although the Council had first option on the new building , there were other potential clients also . |
| 4 | An audio-tape recording in which the exercises are described can be a useful adjunct to teaching the patient this method , provided the therapist has first demonstrated the procedure to the patient , and the technique has been learned adequately . |
| 5 | Wearside golf club played host to their fellow centurians City of Newcastle golf club last weekend 98 years since the club had first contested a game . |
| 6 | Thus it happened that in November 1989 , more than six years after the matter had first come to light , he was charged with two offences of offering an advantage to Mr. Turner , contrary to the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance ( Laws of Hong Kong , 1987 rev. , c. 201 ) . |
| 7 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 8 | Behind her the two seats were empty , a troublous reminder of where Eddie and Laura had sat side by side when the coach had first set off from Heathrow Airport … had first arrived at the eastern outskirts of Oxford . |
| 9 | When the man had first arrived he had tried to torture information on how to escape from one of the waiters . |
| 10 | He had not read the Tower Commission 's report , evidently ; did not know that McFarlane had pleaded guilty to misdemeanours ; did not know the substance of the charges against Poindexter ; had not altered in any particular the mythology created when the edifice had first crashed down , in November 1986 . |
| 11 | They 'd had a choreographer in when the show had first been set up , but no-one had been near it since ; replacement dancers had to pick up the routines from the others , and some of the results could be kind of interesting . |
| 12 | Mrs Blakey , only a little less sceptical than her husband of this line of talk , nevertheless recalled how Timothy Gedge had affected her when he 'd come on to the telephone with a woman 's voice , and her bewilderment when the silence had first begun in the house . |