Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm due off the first tee at ten past twelve . |
| 2 | ‘ But you 've taken me so deep I feel as though I 'm complete for the first time . |
| 3 | ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days . |
| 4 | I was nervous for the first few missions — but once you 'd done it you could cope . |
| 5 | His voice breaking with emotion , the 54-year-old Australian businessman said outside prison near Perth : ‘ I was innocent in the first place . |
| 6 | Well the thing is , I got caught once before in the other place when I went to Manor of the Groves where I tried to book out erm and found I was late for the first erm |
| 7 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
| 8 | I was fine for the first few pages . |
| 9 | And I could n't have been , I could n't get out to help him I was stuck between the first and second floor ! |
| 10 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
| 11 | I was wrong in the first place . |
| 12 | I was wrong in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | In Slatkin 's RCA recording , I was conscious in the first movement of Elgar 's poignant sense of an ideal world ( or relationship ) beyond his reach . |
| 14 | I liked it all , because I was lonely for the first time in my life , and an itinerant . |
| 15 | I was full for the first time in two weeks . |
| 16 | These fees which are PAYABLE at the FIRST MEETING of each year cover the Four meetings held during the year and MUST be paid whether attended or not . |
| 17 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |
| 18 | Their expeditions recalled the all-male cultural sprees which were commonplace before the first war … |
| 19 | In these 239 murals , covering a surface of 1,585 square metres , there are traces of many influences making up a popular and forceful imagery : ‘ The codices , pre-conquest sculpture , popular art , the study of living people , the colour of nature as well as the paintings of the misnamed Italian Primitives , together with the modern artistic tendencies to which Rivera himself had contributed during his stay in France , all went to form his own peculiar style , which is apparent for the first time in these frescoes . ’ |
| 20 | However , in Amphioplus there is a more or less superficial second papilla next to the infradental papilla which is homologous with the first oral tentacle scale . |
| 21 | Er , the this generator er ran into some development difficulties er a while ago and er Eurofighter chose , say I say , a a standby or an alternative generator which is suitable for the first three prototypes and er again the cost of that particular delay will fall to industry . |
| 22 | The expansion of dictionary definitions does not appear to provide any further useful information than that which is available at the first level . |
| 23 | Perhaps a million or more Americans now make their own brew , which is tax-free for the first 200 gallons a year . |
| 24 | Freud 's view here is Comtean ; he thinks in terms of three stages for the progress of civilization , beginning with the animistic phase , to which modern obsessional or paranoid neurotics regress , going through an intermediate phase of religion , which is different from the first because people give the powers and omnipotence to gods , and not to themselves as they do in the magical phase of animism . |
| 25 | The Ecumenical Jury , which was present for the first time in 1989 , included members of the Russian Orthodox Church , OCIC , and Interfilm . |
| 26 | and that was for that , then I had a letter back to say that we were having , there was too much money coming in a week for me to draw unemployment and then they , then a few days later I had this double page letter a big one that says you are entitled to no prescription help , X amount of pounds after erm eighty pounds per glasses you are responsible for the first eighty pound , we say that you can afford to pay that , so much on your teeth , if you 're visiting somebody in prison then you exceed a certain amount of mileage you can only get it if you exceed more than twenty five pound incurring , then I thought oh blow it , forget it , and I never done it , that all come to then , that 's why I wanted a ten of your wage , wage slips you remember now ? |
| 27 | A study at the unit was carried out on 80 women under the age of 40 who were pregnant for the first time . |
| 28 | You were nice in the first light . |
| 29 | You were loose in the first chukka , so were you , Patrick . ’ |
| 30 | At all events , she was awake with the first streaky light of dawn . |