Example sentences of "have [vb pp] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early days the novelty must have outweighed the discomfort , or no one would have travelled in the first charabancs . |
| 2 | It does not immediately cure all known cancers — something that no one with a modicum of medical knowledge would have expected in the first place given the different causes and the versatility of cancer — nor is it without undesirable side effects . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe if you 'd accepted my offer of an air ticket to all the other Grands Prix I would have come in the first six there , too . ’ |
| 4 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 5 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 6 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 7 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 8 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 9 | Is it a new editorial policy that New Scientist will investigate the number and source of replies to advertisements within its pages and then print snide remarks about why the unsuccessful applicants should n't have applied in the first place ? |
| 10 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |
| 11 | Astronomical evidence suggests that this may have occurred in the first half of the year 5 BC . |
| 12 | Yeah but then yo er in a party situation you could probably do that in the first minutes could n't you , I would have thought everybody in th room will have spoken in the first five minutes would n't they ? |
| 13 | And I think originally it may have run in the first year both at easter and at August . |
| 14 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 15 | I should never have started in the first place . |
| 16 | And then it would all be over — this crazy situation which should never have happened in the first place . |
| 17 | How on earth would that have happened in the first instance ? |
| 18 | Information which places guilt for the patient 's illness on the family might only serve to reinforce their overprotective and critical communication styles , which may have arisen in the first place for just this reason . |