Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.

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1 But I am looking forward to the first leg .
2 Do n't know why you 're going there in the first place .
3 ‘ Now we 're going home for the first proper Christmas Laura has ever had , ’ said Fran .
4 They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror .
5 At the Invalidenstrasse crossing , an older man wept as he explained : ‘ I 'm going across for the first time since August 12 , 1961 .
6 I am talking now about the first shot .
7 The bells of an Oxford church are ringing again for the first time in three years .
8 hello there … today we 've come east to the far east for our Central South sport … we 're in Nepal with some local pioneers who are setting off on the first ever Kathmandu marathon … before we run we have join our football parade …
9 The Swedes , at No. 16 with Dancing Queen are working together for the first time in seven years .
10 MUSIC students in Scotland and London are tuning up for the first annual LASMO Music Festival to be held in the theatre at Haddo House , Aberdeen , on 22 June .
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