Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story has it that young de Malleray , a second-lieutenant in the same regiment , having heard the first news but not the sequel , was himself on the way up to the line that evening , and encountered his father 's Colonel . |
| 2 | The Sinfonia continues its policy of including a Scottish work in each of its concerts , having given the first performance the previous evening in Lanark of Nigel Don 's Suite for Cello and Strings . |
| 3 | Having formed the first phrase and its complement as the first sentence of our theme , we must turn to the problem of what to do in the second sentence . |
| 4 | The country outfit with big ideas , having enjoyed a first season on their £400,000 synthetic pitch at Belfast Road , celebrate next Saturday with a star-studded game between Ireland and an internationally-strengthened home team . |
| 5 | The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year . |
| 6 | Having won the first trick with Ace of Hearts , the best approach seems to be to play on Spades . |
| 7 | But Morland having won the first round is confident of surviving … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | People just jump straight in , do the first bit , erm , having done the first bit , they then think about how they 're gon na fit in the next bit , and you end up with a rambling mess that er , does n't fit together , does n't work together too well . |
| 10 | Having attained a First Class degree in History in 1935 , he then determined upon a doctorate , which he completed in 1938 . |
| 11 | Freud refers back to Totem and Taboo , and mentions the band of brothers who gained from co-operation among themselves , having left the first family groups , and achieved what each could not do alone , that is , the overpowering of the father . |
| 12 | Many of them were feeling distinctly insecure at having taken the first step out of the closet and they kept the escape route in sight at all times . |
| 13 | He entered the School in I893 and on leaving in 1896 — having obtained a first class in the London Matriculation the previous December — was awarded the John Benjamin Smith Exhibition to pursue his studies at Manchester . |
| 14 | Dario Galasso , in turn , fought back well in the final , having lost the first set on a tie breaker . |
| 15 | One of these was the dreadful Myndie Snake , the servant of Pundijl , who was the spirit ancestor of man , having created the first mortal from clay . |
| 16 | It was a Dutch medical man who is credited with having discovered the first recipe for gin back in the 1600s . |
| 17 | If unc is the wavefunction at a point on the detecting screen corresponding to the electron 's having traversed the first slit , and P , the associated probability , and if unc and P , are the similar quantities for slit 2 , the rules I have just stated imply unc Then , in the case when both slits are open , the probability unc let us call it ) is just given by unc The quantities unc and unc are what we called probability amplitudes ( p. 88 ) . |