Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] the first " in BNC.

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1 The group of researchers that has seen the first indications of a Z particle is code named UA1 , and is one of the two teams that reported the evidence for the W particle earlier this year .
2 IN humility it should probably be mentioned that having overcome the first two rounds of the Darlington and District 5s and 3s knock out , feckless Falchion B have finally succumbed .
3 The invention of the tank and the aircraft broke through the defensive stalemate that had characterised the first world war .
4 The managing director of the bank that had advanced the first £20,000 was willing , the board , influenced by Niki 's grandfather , was n't .
5 They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place .
6 Many of the enterprises that have survived the first year of reform are still at risk .
7 The 1844 Report hints however that there had been some decline in standards at the lower end of the School , and urged that " prior to admission the Boys should be able to read and write and have learned the first principles of English grammar .
8 Moore is said to have been a pioneer in producing a periodical for seamen , the Mariners ' Journal , which was published briefly between 185I and 1854 , and to have advocated the first system of paid shore based officials to look after the interests of their members while they were at sea .
9 The alluvial marsh was supposed to have been the site of an ancient royal swannery , and to have contributed the first syllable to the name Swanwic , mentioned in Domesday , though Old English ‘ swan ’ appears to derive from swineherd .
10 Coleridge had worked intensely , under Southey 's close scrutiny , to prepare the lectures , and had written the first at a single sitting between midnight and breakfast-time on the day it was delivered .
11 Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital .
12 Viscount Melbourne became Prime Minister in July 1835 , but by the end of that year , it was necessary for the Duke of Wellington to become Prime Minister for a short period , followed for about one year by Sir Robert Peel , who had been Home Secretary and had introduced the first Police Force , enrolling men who soon became known as ‘ Peelers ’ or ‘ Bobbies ’ , after the founder .
13 It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life .
14 She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married .
15 But having collected the first item on Alex Ferguson 's spring shopping list they hope it will prove to be the lever to rid themselves of a 25-year burden .
16 Their main argument is that the World Cup should move around on a rotational basis , but having staged the first three tournaments , other countries have some catching up to do before it returns to these shores .
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