Example sentences of "[prep] being [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Yet after being annihilated in the first Test , England showed they could still fight . |
| 2 | AZUMAH NELSON of Ghana retained his WBC super-feather title in Lake Tahoe but Calvin Grove went the distance after being floored in the first round . |
| 3 | Swindon were facing financial ruin after being relegated from the first division last season … |
| 4 | It tells the story of an engineer who loses his job because of the effects of being gassed during the First World War . |
| 5 | he holds by virtue of being connected with the first company ; |
| 6 | It is the combination of being told for the first time that you have coronary disease with the need for an emergency procedure , for example , an angiogram . |
| 7 | She held posts in Northumberland and Dundee before being appointed as the first educational psychologist in Dumbarton . |
| 8 | John Miller , the son of a Jamaican father and English mother , aroused interest by being mooted as the first black player to represent England . |