Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 The Diadora League minnows could have been three up in the first 20 minutes .
2 He said : ‘ We were three down after the first leg against Stuttgart , but there was a great feeling we could do it .
3 Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats .
4 STANTONDALE were two up in the first quarter of an hour through Graham Dodd and man of the match Paul Diamond before Carl Thomasson reduced the lead shortly before half-time .
5 Bailey was 5–2 down in the first set tie breaker but won five successive points to draw first blood and then broke his rival in both the third and fifth games of the second set for an astounding victory .
6 But we might be experimental enough to spring people into other ideas , which is what it was all about in the first place .
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