Example sentences of "[adv] have the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | SGS-Thomson Microelectronics BV will get its second capital injection of $500m from its backers by the end of June , its French state shareholder CEA-Industrie says : it already has the first payment of $250m each from France and Italy . |
2 | Well the first one 's already had the first chance |
3 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
4 | McNamara already had the first spot in the bag and Moniz was out , so the battle was on for second place . |
5 | We already have the first stage of economic and monetary union — the exchange rate mechanism — and it is already doing great damage to Britain . |
6 | Tom Berman , now in Israel , still has the first letter his mother wrote from Czechoslovakia to the Millers in Glasgow on 14 June 1939 . |
7 | There is one tablet from Knossos which lists several deities including Potnia and Enualios , a name which later was used as an alternative to Ares , the Greek war-god ; it also has the first part of Poseidon 's name , ‘ po-se-da- ’ , but the end is broken off . |
8 | OBJECTIVITY ALSO HAS THE FIRST OBJECT DATABASE FOR WINDOWS NT |
9 | I do n't know whether that will actually happen , because Guild really have the first option , but I was hoping there 'd be a way that we could cooperate and perhaps Eggle could do the British end of it . |
10 | I can remember very well having the first cooker we had , gas cooker we had . |