Example sentences of "having [verb] the first " 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 completed the first two legs of their Caribbean tour , the South Africans , who arrived here yesterday on what is the least volatile island on their itinerary , feel the political success of their visit is already guaranteed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | On the entertainments side er , last year of course we had that one-off benefit with not having to absorb the first quarter 's loss and this year the er first quarter was pretty disastrous because we had an er er an er amalgamation of , of A the Gulf War B the recession and in London I R A bombing and that really stopped tourists coming to London from overseas and from the rest of the U K. But I 'm pleased to say that er we , we 're coming back very strongly and for instance in July at virtually all of our centres attendances were either up to last year very nearl very nearly up to last year or ahead of last year and er at Chessington our revenue was thirteen and a half percent up on last year which I think justifies our investment there . |
| 6 | He later moved to Leicester , having won the first of 25 England caps against Wales in 1974 . |
| 7 | Former Olympic XC skiier , Croasdale is the man in form having won the first two rounds of the British championship breaking course records in the process , and clocking a useful 63–47 for the half marathon in York . |
| 8 | Having won the first trick with Ace of Hearts , the best approach seems to be to play on Spades . |
| 9 | But Morland having won the first round is confident of surviving … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 . |
| 12 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Despite onerous hours — he starts work at 4am and leaves the office about midnight having scanned the first editions of the next day 's newspapers — he has faith in his product , although he cheerfully admits that it needs tweaked into shape . |
| 15 | ‘ I have to say having watched the first two I did n't want to watch any more , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Quoting Bertrand Russell 's dictum that if you hold unorthodox opinions in England you will be disregarded at first , persecuted if you persist , but finally canonised if you live long enough , he comments : ‘ having experienced the first two stages , I seem to be approaching the third . ’ |
| 17 | Having despatched the first and second waggoners with their teams , he turned to Ted Barlow , the third waggoner . |
| 18 | IN humility it should probably be mentioned that having overcome the first two rounds of the Darlington and District 5s and 3s knock out , feckless Falchion B have finally succumbed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro was sworn in on March 22 as Cape Verde 's first freely elected President , the elections on Feb. 17 [ see p. 37994 ] having recorded the first ever electoral defeat for an African head of state . |
| 22 | Dario Galasso , in turn , fought back well in the final , having lost the first set on a tie breaker . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was a Dutch medical man who is credited with having discovered the first recipe for gin back in the 1600s . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Their main argument is that the World Cup should move around on a rotational basis , but having staged the first three tournaments , other countries have some catching up to do before it returns to these shores . |
| 27 | He was counting his blessings having backed the first 3 horses that actually finished the race . |