Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 2 | I was born into the first generation of women who could actually choose — without risking death in an illegal abortion — when and whether we would have children . |
| 3 | I was thinking of the first one which was reproduced in Herbert Read . |
| 4 | ‘ I told them I was leaving after the first gig and it was this bloke from Dik Dik Dimorphic who was going on at me saying that I should n't leave . |
| 5 | I was abused for the first time at three years old . |
| 6 | When I was injured in the first match with Portsmouth at Fratton Park I did n't expect to be playing again in a fortnight . |
| 7 | ‘ No , I was barred after the first one . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League . |
| 9 | In a way I was happy : I had achieved something , I was winning for the first time in my life , and I had a strong sense of myself as a differentiated individual . |
| 10 | In the school , I was told in the First Aid that you could always tell a fractured femur ( which happened with elderly women as a rule ) . |
| 11 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 12 | Since the first royal radio message in 1932 , which was followed by the first TV broadcast on Christmas Day 1957 , the BBC has been in charge of security . |
| 13 | In addressing this issue , Bentham foreshadowed , inter alia , both the work on orthodox organisation and management theory which was developed in the first three decades of this century ( Hume , 1981 p 6 ) and that on space planning which has followed ( Lipman et al , 1978 ) . |
| 14 | The 1,000-strong Congress , which was meeting for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union , is the only body in the country that can change the constitution and other basic laws . |
| 15 | One important objective of counselling was to improve communication within the family , which was achieved in the first session when the therapist took a supportive but firm approach and encouraged the patient to talk to her parents then . |
| 16 | A few observers had already commented on the effectiveness of coaching for tests , a factor which was to lead to the first serious public disquiet over tests as measurement of innate , unalterable and asocial ability — although such comments were not yet thoroughly substantiated . |
| 17 | driving even further than spain is the Oxfordshire team of Francis Tuthill and Anthony Showell … the winners of the London to Sydney car marathon … are the first to enter the London to Mexico marathon which was unveiled for the first time this week … |
| 18 | The fact that virtually all of them cross the Roman road , which was created in the first century AD , suggests that at least some of these features were there in the landscape before the road was built ; here , as elsewhere , it looks as if the road was put in arbitrarily across the landscape with little heed to existing features , much as when new roads and motorways are built today . |
| 19 | Such a requirement for express agreement of admissions policy is difficult to reconcile with the more limited requirement that governors should simply ‘ consult ’ the local education authority which was introduced for the first time by section 33 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 20 | Paul Stern , the vice-president of the Vienna Bridge Club , soon invited her to join the Austrian Ladies ' Team , which was preparing for the first European Women 's Teams Championship to be held in Brussels in 1935 . |
| 21 | In the redrawn footnote to section 7(5) in Stone 's Justices ' Manual , 123rd ed. , the editors refer to this authority , but do not repeat the view which was contained in the first section of the footnote in the earlier editions . |
| 22 | Christina went to her own office , which was located on the first floor of the reception building . |
| 23 | I well remember the first one to be accepted , ‘ ’ Firmly I believe and truly ’ , which was sung for the first time at the dedication of Holy Cross College . |
| 24 | These casualty totals have to be set against the continuing growth in traffic which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 25 | Clearly , this will be related in some degree to the increase in the number of people owning and driving cars which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 26 | She was riding in the first day of the Tythrop Horse Trials at Kingsey in Buckinghamshire when the accident happened . |
| 27 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 28 | On going down from Newnham , she was appointed as the first principal of Cambridge Training College , formed with the purpose of training university women to teach in girls ' secondary schools . |
| 29 | Ferdinando came to his wife in such an open way that she was reminded of the first advances he had ever made and she was stirred in a way she believed no longer possible . |
| 30 | It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time . |