Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] [pos pn] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't buy anything cos I 'm on my first time round . |
| 2 | I told him I was in my first year and that my curriculum to date had been based around mastering the basics of Swahili , its grammar , basic vocabulary and syntax . |
| 3 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 4 | I was in my first year at Bedford . |
| 5 | ‘ I first heard about the race while I was in my first term at Exeter University , ’ she told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 6 | Then a few days later we had opening night , and I was in my first tuxedo . |
| 7 | Women wept as Barry Ryan , in a moving tribute to his twin , said : ‘ You were at my first breath and I felt your last breath , we should smile at such perfect symmetry . ’ |
| 8 | This girl looked as if she was on her first assignment , as she sat with pencil poised over her shorthand notebook . |
| 9 | With regard to the second patient , recent correspondence with her general practitioner reveals that she initially developed intermittent leftsided headache and right hypoaesthesia without motor signs 3 years ago when she was in her first pregnancy . |
| 10 | It was during my first year at university that I first came across it in a book by James Tyler Kent in a public library . |
| 11 | has always involved himself with the community and it was during his first term of office here that one of our cherished hopes came to fruition , a community centre for , called The Village Hall . |
| 12 | It was like my first Christmas . |
| 13 | One abiding memory for me was on my first visit to his home in 1965 . |