Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] was [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |
| 2 | But as soon as his foot was on the first step of the stairs , Charles heard the fatal summons over the loudspeaker . |
| 3 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 4 | His father was on the first fire-engine to arrive and Raymond was on the second . |
| 5 | His father was on the first lifeboat . |
| 6 | ‘ Len had a poor League record , but unlike many of the others his reign was in the first division . |
| 7 | Your mother was among the first batch of evacuees , too , like Lilian . |