Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 2 | Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later . |
| 3 | If Childebert and Chlothar were indeed adding to the first sixty-five , or even the first seventy-eight , clauses of Lex Salica , then the first Merovingian code can be dated before 511 . |
| 4 | In fact he was still working on a first version of the fourth act ( which eventually became Act III ) when he sailed for New York on 24 September . |
| 5 | On the way back from that holiday in Provence , the party stopped in Paris , which John was also seeing for the first time . |