Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes it important to use the airbrakes to ensure that you cross the upwind boundary very low as though you were attempting to land in the first part of the field . |
| 2 | THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth . |
| 3 | Priests were allowed to vote for the first time since the 1920s , due to the repeal of anti-clerical legislation in January [ see p. 38758 ] . |
| 4 | Though they 've slipped up lately , there is still hope that the Premier League will end up in the hands of the sort of club that the likes of Arsenal , Everton and Manchester United were trying to exclude in the first place . |
| 5 | Sutton was told to get on the first train from Manchester . |
| 6 | The experience of the Belfast researchers was that a narrow transcription was needed to identify in the first place the range of vowel variation associated with different phonetic environments . |
| 7 | The air was beginning to blush with the first , reassuring glow of the mounting sun , and the breeze that had tossed Dulé and his companions in the pirogues was freshening . |
| 8 | Dolphin 's Motorola Inc 88110-based Triton SCI Server , which was scheduled to ship in the first quarter of this year , will be kept under wraps for at least another year , the company says . |
| 9 | His 22-year-old step grandchild Madjit was forced to jump from the first floor with his pyjamas ablaze . |
| 10 | Ballyfolion was forced to check on the first bend and Hyland said the dog cramped in the closing stages . |
| 11 | When their mother died in 1890 , the eldest daughter , who was by then thirty years old , was allowed to move to the first floor bedroom , and from then on she ruled the roost . |