Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pron] [was/were] the first " in BNC.
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1 | as if we were the first visitors here . |
2 | His words emerged from silence , as if they were the first words of the evening . |
3 | Surprisingly , others looked brand new , as if he was the first person to walk along them . |
4 | I think that the instructor should treat the first flight on a particular glider as if it was the first flight of the day , and on subsequent flights he should just check for full and free movement and that the surfaces are moving fully . |
5 | She liked to show them to me about every three months , each time as if it was the first . |
6 | In the evening they went walking , hand in hand , as if it were the first love for each of them . |
7 | They were innovators in that they were the first ones who did n't try to represent the melody as written . |
8 | Ganong ( 1980 ) found that the identification of a phoneme on a continuum between and varied according to whether it was the first phoneme of kiss or gift . |