Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am to give the first reading . |
| 2 | I was quite wet when I was drinking the first Martini . |
| 3 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
| 4 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
| 5 | When you are doing the first draft , label as many points on the axes as possible . |
| 6 | So she 's written the first syllable as she feels it sounds ( coff- ) and that triggers the -ee . |
| 7 | Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there ! |
| 8 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 9 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 10 | They 're clearing the way for the new 600 series and we 're seeing the first evidence of the Japanese working practises . |
| 11 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |
| 12 | The church had important links with the butchers of Prague and they were given the first chapel on the left at the W end in honour of their defence of Prague , once in 1611 against the troops from Passau , and again in 1648 , against the Swedes . |
| 13 | When they were doing the first picture they had , I think it was . |
| 14 | I 'm dead against this , er , on principle , I think it 's cutting the first sod of the hole that you 're preparing to dig yourselves . |
| 15 | If it 's sold the first lender takes priority . |
| 16 | With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent . |
| 17 | The unprimed will not necessarily be diagonal as it should be if it is to satisfy the first part of eqn ( 6.16 ) . |
| 18 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 19 | Here with ZETA he was overseeing the first example of the reverse process — the controlled fusion of light elements and detection of the products , the neutrons . |
| 20 | When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there . |
| 21 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 22 | In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar . |
| 23 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |