Example sentences of "[noun] were [v-ing] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The conditions were appaling in the first half . |
| 3 | More than 500,000 people were voting for the first time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Red Rum and Desert Orchid were meeting for the first time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The R5 commentators were complaining about the first half saying how rubbish it was — Mike Ingham , the worst scum lover . |
| 8 | Michelle , Valerie and June were jumping for the first time , but Kay had two charity parachute jumps under her belt already . |