Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [prep] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm on the first flight to Milan in the morning . ’ |
| 2 | Then , lo and behold , at 17 I 'm in the first team . |
| 3 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was in the First Division , when I did my time on the beat . |
| 5 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 6 | I found them , and in a minute I was in the first room , where Bersonin and Detchard were . |
| 7 | I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether . |
| 8 | If you are on the first field of an option and you press BACKSPACE , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 9 | That grant is ring fenced , it can only be spent on community care defined elements , it includes the recognition that as well as buying care for people , you are for the first time , er , assessing people 's needs . |
| 10 | Monica Hicks of the Association of University Teachers argues that the proposal of split firsts is a distraction : ‘ If you 're in the first category , further refining is an unnecessary detail . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She 's on the first floor . ’ |
| 12 | He said : ‘ We are in the first stages of saturation coverage . |
| 13 | We are in the First Class with Alan Frame of the Express , and all the monkeys are in the back . |
| 14 | But we were without a first officer . |
| 15 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 16 | We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’ |
| 17 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
| 18 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |
| 19 | Now , however , having regard to what was learnt by C.N.L. 's counsel whilst sitting in court during the successful appeal , they are for the first time in a position to raise a plea of justification . |
| 20 | Oxford United have their own ladies team this season … they 're in the first division of the National League and this week played their first game at the Manor ground … and the girls done well . |
| 21 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 22 | The Rye are proof that this idea works : they were on the first tour two years ago and are now probably the hottest property in the region . |
| 23 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 24 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 25 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 26 | They were in the first place monotheists . |
| 27 | Not surprisingly they were among the first fossils to attract widespread attention . |
| 28 | Two of them were among the first documentaries to be made about the war , and thus have considerable historical importance . |
| 29 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 30 | But could we please be told just a little bit more about Compus course , er run by Horizon , that 's mentioned in the last paragraph , erm on the , on green one , it 's on the first page . |