Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
| 2 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 3 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 4 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 5 | Erm and so I , I believe that er the resolution in fact on the order paper will stand er and if we were to remove the first two lines er of Mr 's erm resolution that the County Council he represents if necessary that in a full , a full public enquiry into the fifth terminial at Heathrow , if we get that and graft on the rest of his words er to the resolution er on the Chairman er that will do two things er it reads er the quality of our Officers are suggesting and it picks up again a very important comments er that he makes er regarding post , er , er something that is public erm , er and that it , it meets media and the other improve that 's something for the district office report . |
| 6 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |
| 7 | The church had important links with the butchers of Prague and they were given the first chapel on the left at the W end in honour of their defence of Prague , once in 1611 against the troops from Passau , and again in 1648 , against the Swedes . |
| 8 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 9 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 10 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 11 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 12 | When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there . |
| 13 | I was quite wet when I was drinking the first Martini . |
| 14 | When they were doing the first picture they had , I think it was . |