Example sentences of "[pers pn] be in [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Then , lo and behold , at 17 I 'm in the first team . |
2 | ‘ I was in the First Division , when I did my time on the beat . |
3 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
4 | I found them , and in a minute I was in the first room , where Bersonin and Detchard were . |
5 | I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether . |
6 | Monica Hicks of the Association of University Teachers argues that the proposal of split firsts is a distraction : ‘ If you 're in the first category , further refining is an unnecessary detail . ’ |
7 | We are in the First Class with Alan Frame of the Express , and all the monkeys are in the back . |
8 | We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’ |
9 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
10 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |
11 | Oxford United have their own ladies team this season … they 're in the first division of the National League and this week played their first game at the Manor ground … and the girls done well . |
12 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
13 | They were in the first place monotheists . |
14 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
15 | Showed with a finger erm Showed with a finger oh , crumbs , oh yes , look it 's in the first line . |
16 | It is in the first place striking that in the Old French fabliaux , a male rival or spoiler is more commonly the butt of the humour than a female , though examples of the latter situation are reasonably numerous . |
17 | he 's in the first year |
18 | It was in the first Easter vac that he produced The Table . |
19 | Whitehouse 's was not primarily an attack on homosexuals : it was in the first instance an attack on the imputation of a sexual context to Christ 's death ; in the second it was a confrontation with an anti-Christian and , to her , sexually-obsessed society , and it was this latter symbolic aspect to the events of the blasphemy trial which was the main point . |
20 | A radically new urban experience was presented : whereas in the nineteenth century the major urban change was in the formation of tight-knit , high-density conurbations , and between the wars it was in the first flowering of low-density peripheral suburbanization , the second half of the twentieth century has seen metropolitanization as the essential phenomenon . |
21 | Cos I know the principle used to be that is er , it was in the first aid room cos that 's where all the first aid treatments |
22 | If , on the other hand , there are many unstressed syllables between the stressed ones , then the unstressed ones are squeezed together , so that the time between the stresses is approximately the same as it was in the first example ( see the sentence " The weather we had last summer was awful " ) . |
23 | Clyne House , the Royal Schools for the Deaf ( Manchester ) 's nursery department , was once again turned into a military hospital just as it was in the First World War . |
24 | remember how it was in the first place so if you cut four in half , remember four |
25 | He was in the first Section I was in . |
26 | One was from erm from Baghdad to Barqu and the other one was from Barqu to Basrah because he was in the First World War , I think he was serving with the Middlesex Regiment and erm , I do n't know how he managed this , I never did understand . |
27 | That 's how he was in the first place though . |