Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be in [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | I recall being in the first class and er a teacher coming to me , as I were n't paying much attention I think , and to this day I shall remember and never forget , she just folded my arms in front of me and says , Percy , you 're not listening , you 'll have to have a rest . |
2 | It is probable that plague remained a constant threat , even if it is less well recorded in contemporary writings than at an earlier date ; probably men were more inured to its presence than they had been in the first shock of 1348 . |
3 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
4 | The government was very much more ready to mobilize all the nation 's resources in the Second World War than it had been in the First . |
5 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |