Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this happens the rest of the school , who along the way have trained with the successful runner , may have beaten him on occasion , have been course markers , marshals , timekeepers , supporters and team-mates , really feel that sport is n't just another soap opera glimpsed on television or paraded through the back pages of the newspapers — it 's something that they are actively experiencing at first hand for themselves . |
| 2 | It was well received at first , but the mood of the House changed and the Government was defeated on its Second Reading on 19th February . |
| 3 | It was well received at first , and Mozart made 450 gulden out of it . |
| 4 | — It was hard going at first , but after a while her hands began to flow over the keys in an easier , more assured style , and Laura found that she was able to relax , the soft chords and harmony having a soothing effect on her lacerated emotions . |
| 5 | Together with Germany in the 1930s , Russia since 1917 has had the most penetrating system of political propaganda , but it was severely hampered at first by inefficient technical means for dissemination over vast spaces and many minority nationalities . |