Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm on the first flight to Milan in the morning . ’ |
| 2 | Then , lo and behold , at 17 I 'm in the first team . |
| 3 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was in the First Division , when I did my time on the beat . |
| 5 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 6 | I found them , and in a minute I was in the first room , where Bersonin and Detchard were . |
| 7 | I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether . |
| 8 | Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act . |
| 9 | just to point out to members that the promised report on the lorry management plan which is in the first preparation has been put back to the January committee meeting on the Highways Committee so that we can get full advantage from the traffic and |
| 10 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 11 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 12 | Cannabis comes from hemp , which was among the first plants to be domesticated , especially in parts of South-East Asia , where it is a valuable source of fibre for making rope and twine . |
| 13 | To Dr Porter , " in a multitude of small ways , the poor law served as a thorough-going system of support " which was in the first half of the eigh-teenth century " quite generous in their paternalist supplements to domestic income " . |
| 14 | Should doctors always be so keen to offer abortion as the only solution to women who are in the first throes of disappointment and depression at the news that their baby is not genetically perfect ? |
| 15 | If you are on the first field of an option and you press BACKSPACE , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 16 | That grant is ring fenced , it can only be spent on community care defined elements , it includes the recognition that as well as buying care for people , you are for the first time , er , assessing people 's needs . |
| 17 | Monica Hicks of the Association of University Teachers argues that the proposal of split firsts is a distraction : ‘ If you 're in the first category , further refining is an unnecessary detail . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ She 's on the first floor . ’ |
| 19 | He said : ‘ We are in the first stages of saturation coverage . |
| 20 | We are in the First Class with Alan Frame of the Express , and all the monkeys are in the back . |
| 21 | But we were without a first officer . |
| 22 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 23 | We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’ |
| 24 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
| 25 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |
| 26 | one 's in the first stanza and one in the last one . |
| 27 | One 's in the first stanza and there 's two in the last one . |
| 28 | Thucydides writes with feeling : he complains in his own person in book v ( 68 ) of the secrecy with which the Spartans conduct their affairs , which meant that no one knew how many Spartans there were at the first battle of Mantinea in 418 . |
| 29 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 30 | ( Last time I saw him there was in the first half vs Arse , where * Hodge * ! was given the right side … |