Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] for 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 4 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 5 | Moreover it was becoming for the first time , as a result of Peter 's administrative reforms , an institution concerned solely with diplomacy . |
| 6 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |