Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 2 | I was thinking of the first one which was reproduced in Herbert Read . |
| 3 | ‘ I told them I was leaving after the first gig and it was this bloke from Dik Dik Dimorphic who was going on at me saying that I should n't leave . |
| 4 | In a way I was happy : I had achieved something , I was winning for the first time in my life , and I had a strong sense of myself as a differentiated individual . |
| 5 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 6 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 7 | She was riding in the first day of the Tythrop Horse Trials at Kingsey in Buckinghamshire when the accident happened . |
| 8 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 9 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 10 | Moreover it was becoming for the first time , as a result of Peter 's administrative reforms , an institution concerned solely with diplomacy . |
| 11 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 12 | He was goggling at the First Spiritualists like a medieval alchemist who has just raised the Devil . |
| 13 | Even while he was working on the first draft of the poem , he was writing to Martin Browne about all the engagements ahead . |