Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [be] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 3 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 4 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
| 5 | I think he 's thirty eight , and he 's on the first team . |
| 6 | Hargreaves 's inventions were numerous and diverse ; besides his innovations in the soap , alkali , metallurgical , and electrochemical industries , his ‘ thermo-motor ’ anticipated the idea of the diesel engine , and he was among the first to advocate the use of gaseous chlorine for treating sewage . |
| 7 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 8 | ‘ But they are in the first two heats so we will know our fate very early . ’ |
| 9 | But it is like the first scenario in this : both kinds of eroticism are specific to male bonding , both occur within and against the very situations in which heterosexuality is most ardently pursued , and both are in part the consequence of heterosexual ardour . |
| 10 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 11 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 12 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |