Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [pron] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next weekend in Budapest , Attalli will tell the EBRD 's 45 members how this ambititious enterprise has fared in its first year of business . |
| 2 | In honour of its 250th anniversary in 1993 , the company has embarked upon its first ever multi-media advertising campaign , comprising a series of three cinema commercials and four press and poster advertisements . |
| 3 | I 'm glad to hear that , Wilko has proved during his first 3 years that he is capable of getting the best out of players individually and as a team . |
| 4 | The dining room , with its pale marbled walls and black and glass furniture , has survived from its first overhaul as it is only really used for entertaining and for Ella 's piano practice . |
| 5 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 6 | He rubbed it between his fingers , staring with admiration , then sank , cross-legged , near my chair , the way he 'd done on his first night . |
| 7 | It might even be something that Creed already understood , that he 'd divined on their first meeting in the Mortlake office . |
| 8 | ’ Some companies have been very conciliatory , ’ though they 've still come out with lines like ’ if only you 'd talked to us first … ’ . |
| 9 | It was advertising mail , like most of that which he 'd opened on his first visit and later burned in the forest . |
| 10 | Cos she , she 'd gone to you first and she , and she came along , she said erm Ann 's not in , she said I 've come down to see you both . |
| 11 | Since then he 's had to live through his first wife being run over and his second screen love , unconvincing animal righter and hippie chick Kerry Bishop , being shot dead by illegal duck hunters . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'll have to go through me first , ’ warned fitzAlan , his voice low with menace . |
| 13 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 14 | ‘ Then you should have come to me first . |
| 15 | ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out . |
| 16 | She would have to listen to him first . |
| 17 | Here are some answers to solve the technical hitches you may have had with your first movie : |
| 18 | Late on , County replaced the striker Gary McDonald with Mark Howard , who might have scored from his first kick , shooting wide five yards out at the far post . |
| 19 | Having learned from his first assignment that the general effectively controlled the hostage situation in Beirut , Coleman now came to realize that , in a broader frame but in the same sense , Kenaan also controlled the nature and scope of narco-terrorism itself — ; or , at any rate , could do so when it suited President Assad 's purpose . |
| 20 | I think I 'd talk to them first and if they 're agreeable then I 'd give you their name and telephone number but I 'd have to speak to them first but I would n't just give out the name and telephone number on an ad hoc basis . |
| 21 | Arnold Palmer , Gary Player , George Archer and Jack Nicklaus are the only golfers ever to have won on their first appearance in a US Senior Tour event . |
| 22 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 23 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 24 | He would not tell her , this funny bewitching little English girl , that he had come to her first because he could not keep away from her . |
| 25 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 26 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 27 | I had become quite skilled with harees , that glutinous porridge of lamb and cracked wheat which I had met at my first meal bedu style . |
| 28 | Her ring at the doorbell was answered by the woman she had seen on her first visit — the one who had spoken a little English . |
| 29 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 30 | If the CBSO strings failed to assert themselves strongly enough in the overall balance at certain crucial points in the first movement , they certainly approached the textural problems of the adagio with great sensitivity and , when it came to them , phrased the main theme as eloquently as the clarinet had done on its first appearance . |