Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] be [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | My concern is on the first page , the grammatical errors in the |
| 2 | My birthday is on the first of — What could that last month be ? |
| 3 | ‘ My office is in the first sleeping car aft of the central dining car . ’ |
| 4 | Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall . |
| 5 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |
| 6 | We can specify a point by saying what its coordinates are in the first field of view |
| 7 | In brief : Salha was directly related to five of the seven households whose girls were in the first cohort , and her acceptance of the headmaster 's plans was influential in persuading the mothers of the girls that they should agree . |
| 8 | Music death : Singer-songwriter Arthur Alexander , whose classics were among the first songs cut by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones , has died in Nashville , aged 53 . |
| 9 | But as soon as his foot was on the first step of the stairs , Charles heard the fatal summons over the loudspeaker . |
| 10 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 11 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 12 | His father was on the first lifeboat . |
| 13 | And retired soldiers from his army were among the first of the century 's numerous British settlers in Pau . |
| 14 | ‘ Len had a poor League record , but unlike many of the others his reign was in the first division . |
| 15 | If the second person says that his cards are in the first and last row you know that they are at the t in mutus and the t in dedit . |
| 16 | Our room is on the first floor . |
| 17 | Your room 's on the first floor . ’ |
| 18 | It could be that your ancestors were among the first to abandon the idea of hunting and gathering in favour of cultivation and husbandry . |
| 19 | Your brain is for the first time having to struggle and strive and keep really busy , which is great . |
| 20 | Your mother was among the first batch of evacuees , too , like Lilian . |