Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ .
2 But I am looking forward to the first leg .
3 Do n't know why you 're going there in the first place .
4 ‘ Now we 're going home for the first proper Christmas Laura has ever had , ’ said Fran .
5 At the Invalidenstrasse crossing , an older man wept as he explained : ‘ I 'm going across for the first time since August 12 , 1961 .
6 There are many who have already started to vote , or will be doing so for the first time soon , with no first-hand experience of what Labour governments were like .
7 Many entrants to nursing will be leaving home for the first time or changing their location .
8 I am talking now about the first shot .
9 In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles .
10 The bells of an Oxford church are ringing again for the first time in three years .
11 Howe , who underwent heart by-pass surgery four-and-a-half years ago , is speaking publicly for the first time since entering hospital earlier this month with a mystery chest complaint .
12 Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office .
13 The Swedes , at No. 16 with Dancing Queen are working together for the first time in seven years .
14 I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring .
15 Stuart Barnes , the match captain , said : ‘ This team was playing together for the first time .
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