Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] have [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The only other event at Huntingdon that I recall with any clarity was when I had my first ever flight in an aircraft — and for a time I was quite determined that it was going to be my last . |
2 | I was 14 when I had my first date . |
3 | As I tell children in primary schools , I was six when I had my first piece published . |
4 | My homes are a far cry from the attic flat in Bloomsbury where I had my first set in 1958 . |
5 | Her last visit to the hospital was in 1950 when she had her first baby there . |
6 | Just giving you an idea of when you had them last year . |
7 | ‘ Can you remember when you had it last ? ’ |
8 | Once through the boulder field , a grassy sward high above picturesque Crummack Dale led steadily up to a broad plateau near Long Scar , from where we had our first view of the distant and brooding Ingleborough rising from a vast array of moor and limestone pavements , shimmering in the summer heat like a huge field of cotton grass . |
9 | Ever since 1969 , when he had his first show , his cartoonish black-and-white paintings have managed to comment without mercy or a smidgen of socially redeeming tact on , among other things , men 's — and women 's — looks ( Warhol 's nosejob painting must be an important icon in his private gallery ) ; issues of health ( a hilarious series of men in the throes of having heart attacks ) ; bestiality ( pert Fifties housewife on her knees doing something unspeakable to a poodle with her arm ) and religion ( famous Biblical figure on the cross getting a pie in the face ) . |
10 | Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
11 | PLUMBER Peter Rowe , 53 , has bought the Wheal Basset Inn at Carnkie , Cornwall — the pub where he had his first drink 38 years ago . |
12 | In 1908 he became assistant works manager and chief draughtsman at the French Westinghouse Company 's brake and signal works in Paris , where he had his first contacts with French railway engineers . |