Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [v-ing] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As everyone knows now , lads like Sean Gregan are playing in the first team and will be regulars in the future . ’ |
| 2 | Barbel Abela is competing in the first round-the-world air race in a fifty-year-old bomber . |
| 3 | ( Freud is writing in the first decade of the twentieth century , about men and women in the middle- and upper-middle-class Austria who would have been brought up in the latter part of the nineteenth century . ) |
| 4 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
| 5 | Erm operating profit therefore down eleven percent , that 's er the ongoing businesses plus of course the impact of the erm er the sale of er Elsevere are holding in the first erm up to ten weeks of ninety one . |
| 6 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 7 | Yes Alan was mentioning in the first half poor strike rate , just four goals in over two hundred and fifty appearances in his time at Leeds United . |
| 8 | Lester was producing for the first time , after his experience with A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum . |
| 9 | The allegations broke on Tuesday as Jackson was preparing for the first of two concerts in Bangkok , the first stop in the Asian swing of his Dangerous world tour . |
| 10 | McKenzie was fighting for the first time since losing his IBF title to Ulster 's Dave McAuley . |
| 11 | This time an overseas crew from South Africa is competing for the first time . |
| 12 | Soccer : Border League Wormingford FC are looking for a first team manager for next season . |
| 13 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 14 | When a number of us here did a study of the 1984 Chesterfield by-election , where Tony Benn was standing for the first time , and asked constituents themselves what they felt about the broadcast coverage , they repeatedly used the word ‘ bias ’ to describe it . |
| 15 | I think Steve was going to a first aider or something , and there was quite a few different people . |
| 16 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 17 | Miriam was wondering as the first fat drops of rain splashed on the verandah . |
| 18 | What made it ten times worse , you see , was that Lavinia had strongly resisted Isabel 's coming in the first place . |
| 19 | Home ownership in America is falling for the first time since the Depression , just as the savings-and-loan collapse has made the government the largest single owner of property after foreclosing on bankrupt thrifts . |
| 20 | It 's a lot of money Well this is that Ian was making in the first place is n't it , product actually |
| 21 | Kelly was talking for the first time since Brentford striker Blissett was acquitted of assaulting Torquay defender John Uzzell last week . |
| 22 | Michelle , Valerie and June were jumping for the first time , but Kay had two charity parachute jumps under her belt already . |