Example sentences of "[noun] be [v-ing] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As everyone knows now , lads like Sean Gregan are playing in the first team and will be regulars in the future . ’ |
| 2 | Barbel Abela is competing in the first round-the-world air race in a fifty-year-old bomber . |
| 3 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 4 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
| 5 | The horse was racing for the first time for Epsom trainer Roger Ingram having previously run in Ireland for Joanna Morgan . |
| 6 | Erm operating profit therefore down eleven percent , that 's er the ongoing businesses plus of course the impact of the erm er the sale of er Elsevere are holding in the first erm up to ten weeks of ninety one . |
| 7 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 8 | Yes Alan was mentioning in the first half poor strike rate , just four goals in over two hundred and fifty appearances in his time at Leeds United . |
| 9 | When my date comes back the credits are rolling on the first film . |
| 10 | Government officials are admitting for the first time families in mid-value houses of £66,000 — £88,000 are likely to face bills of £600 not £400 as hoped . |
| 11 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 12 | Saxton was talking for the first time since being sent home from Barcelona for taking the drug Clenbuterol . |
| 13 | The allegations broke on Tuesday as Jackson was preparing for the first of two concerts in Bangkok , the first stop in the Asian swing of his Dangerous world tour . |
| 14 | McKenzie was fighting for the first time since losing his IBF title to Ulster 's Dave McAuley . |
| 15 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 16 | This time an overseas crew from South Africa is competing for the first time . |
| 17 | ‘ This genuine shortage is occurring for the first time ever . |
| 18 | Soccer : Border League Wormingford FC are looking for a first team manager for next season . |
| 19 | More than 500,000 people were voting for the first time . |
| 20 | The view in this paper is that the sense of disillusionment many people were experiencing during the first year of the war resulted from an over-valuation of man 's nature , and an attempt to deny the reality of death for people one loved . |
| 21 | A second tricky little pattern was appearing beside the first on Alice 's form . |
| 22 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 23 | When a number of us here did a study of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election , where Tony Benn was standing for the first time , and asked constituents themselves what they felt about the broadcast coverage , they repeatedly used the word ‘ bias ’ to describe it . |
| 24 | MAGAZINES are bidding for the first photos of five-day-old Louis , son of Princess Stephanie of Monaco , right . |
| 25 | Cricket now , and while England are getting ready to meet Pakistan in the final of the World Cup , there 's another piece of sporting history being made over in South Africa.Worcestershire 's players are preparing for the first of a five match series there , to help the country back from years of sporting isolation . |
| 26 | I think Steve was going to a first aider or something , and there was quite a few different people . |
| 27 | Red Rum and Desert Orchid were meeting for the first time . |
| 28 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 29 | Miriam was wondering as the first fat drops of rain splashed on the verandah . |
| 30 | Because you , Neil 's already spoken to them about how late th the thing was coming in the first place no and they 've just ignored it ! |