Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked very tired : there were puffy smudges around her eyes , and bracketing her mouth were tiny lines like the first cracks in plaster . |
| 2 | We were early risers on the first morning . |
| 3 | This biography is not merely content to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Dickens ( interesting fact : Dickens spoke with a slight ‘ metallic burr ’ in his voice ) ; nor does it stop at telling you everything you never wanted to know about Dickens ( uninteresting fact : there were white Christmases for the first eight years of Dickens ' life ) ; it goes so far , as with that unidentified novel , as to let you know when it can not tell you something . |
| 4 | They were little eyes in the first place . |
| 5 | There were insufficient vehicles in the first delivery to work the whole service between Sutton and Croydon and several of the earlier 1–60 batch ex-L.U.T. trolleybuses , known as ‘ Diddlers ’ because of the clicking noise their contactors made , had to be used during the first few weeks . |