Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days . |
| 2 | I was nervous for the first few missions — but once you 'd done it you could cope . |
| 3 | His voice breaking with emotion , the 54-year-old Australian businessman said outside prison near Perth : ‘ I was innocent in the first place . |
| 4 | Well the thing is , I got caught once before in the other place when I went to Manor of the Groves where I tried to book out erm and found I was late for the first erm |
| 5 | I did n't want to tell her I 'd done nothing at all so I told a sort of white lie — said I was halfway through the first draft . |
| 6 | I was fine for the first few pages . |
| 7 | And I could n't have been , I could n't get out to help him I was stuck between the first and second floor ! |
| 8 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
| 9 | I was wrong in the first place . |
| 10 | I was wrong in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | In Slatkin 's RCA recording , I was conscious in the first movement of Elgar 's poignant sense of an ideal world ( or relationship ) beyond his reach . |
| 12 | I liked it all , because I was lonely for the first time in my life , and an itinerant . |
| 13 | I was full for the first time in two weeks . |
| 14 | You were nice in the first light . |
| 15 | You were loose in the first chukka , so were you , Patrick . ’ |
| 16 | At all events , she was awake with the first streaky light of dawn . |
| 17 | Lying there she was aware for the first time that night of Maggie above her and Rachel below her ; both , she imagined , sleeping sweetly , and again the grinding weight of compassion and guilt swept over her . |
| 18 | We were poor in the first half and slightly better in the second . |
| 19 | I released the crew that had had no food or rest all day and we were ready for the first watch next day . ’ |
| 20 | There are already , within any company , enough people with egg on their faces who will argue that one more mighty heave will get us there , but it takes , I think , more courage to be prepared to acknowledge that we were wrong in the first place . |
| 21 | They were successful in the first aim by concentrating on Mr Smith 's shadow budget and re-exploding the tax bombshell . |
| 22 | It thus offered a form of compensatory training for them and made no attempt to try to alter the racist structures and attitudes in the labour market by which they were disadvantaged in the first place . |
| 23 | On , on the point of representation , in fact , er , I think there have been representations made already be those authorities who felt they were disadvantaged in the first case , and so what you 've seen with , using this method of distribution , is a switch actually , of expenditure to London boroughs , London boroughs felt that they had lost , er , in the first round of S T G , but now if you look at the overall spread they and the er , Mets have gained . |
| 24 | They were present at the first national meeting of indigenous press that we organised in June 1991 , and armed men visit the premises of Etnias magazine without warning . |
| 25 | This meant it was available for the first two years only in London and the South-East and to people who bothered to fit a new aerial . |
| 26 | I thing recently the bus service has got dreadful since they brought in er private buses to their local areas , it was good for the first few months , but when they find out that its not paying at all , they take them off , they do n't tell you , the bus just disappears so your left with the usual one that used to be on . |
| 27 | With the advent of the new technology of lasers and holography it was possible for the first time in history to build the ancient consciousness-raising symbols out of pure light . |
| 28 | They thought we misused the system when actually it was expensive in the first place and faulty , " said a middle-aged woman who lives on the estate . |
| 29 | In order to identify any broad trends in the responses and to enable meaningful statistical information to be compiled , it was necessary in the first instance to assign answers to one of a limited number of categories . |
| 30 | It was embarrassing in the first place . |