Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was quite wet when I was drinking the first Martini . |
| 2 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 11 | In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was awarded a first class in part i of the history examination ( 1941 ) . |