Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 2 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |
| 3 | Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’ |
| 4 | But they used the Fleet Canteen which was there in the first war . |
| 5 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 6 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 7 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 8 | She was almost at the first port of call — one of Luke 's list . |
| 9 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 10 | They were midway through the first show and just about everyone was out on stage , giving ten minutes of comparative quiet before another storm of quick-changes and running repairs . |
| 11 | The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two . |
| 12 | Any organic material must inevitably reflect its origin , and can not contain what it was n't in the first place . |
| 13 | It was just like the first one . |
| 14 | It was exactly like the first time . |
| 15 | The level of British farming declined sharply and it was only in the first decade of the twentieth century that it began to get on its feet again by shifting its emphasis to specialities like beef-fattening and vegetable-growing . |
| 16 | At first , the Assembly could not even decide upon its own agenda : it was only after the first session in 1949 that the Committee of Ministers agreed not to exercise its right to draw up the Assembly 's agenda . |
| 17 | He was also for the first time vaguely troubled about the DIA 's priorities in the Middle East , particularly with respect to the Western hostages in Beirut . |