Example sentences of "and [pron] be the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We decided it would be a good idea to develop a computer corpus of British English , intended to match the Brown University Corpus of American English which had recently become available , and which was the first computer corpus of modern English . |
| 2 | And you are the first person now I ever told it to . |
| 3 | I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ? |
| 4 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 5 | And she was the first teacher and there was Mi Mr who was the head teacher . |
| 6 | In December 1989 , we received word from the European Commission that our application had been successful and we were the first tenants group to be awarded £400,000 provided we secured the moral and financial support from our landlord — Glasgow District Council . |
| 7 | Life by that time had appeared on land above sea level , and there were the first plants and terrestrial invertebrates . |
| 8 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 9 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 10 | And he was the first mufti in the Ottoman state . " |
| 11 | The defensive headers of the tall , red-haired Roberts soon made him a familiar figure at Highbury , and he was the first defending centre-half to earn the name ‘ policeman ’ or ‘ stopper ’ . |
| 12 | You do n't take a water tablet tomorrow and then you start this Inavase stuff and the first dose should be taken at night because the main potential side effect with the very first tablet , and it 's the first tablet only , is your blood pressure can go Oh down a bit . |
| 13 | and it 's the first road on your right |
| 14 | and I are off tomorrow and it 's the first day off that we 've had together you know , for |
| 15 | And it 's the first time since you 're . |
| 16 | Now I mentioned that this was Chest Week and it 's the first time that the er Chest , Heart and Stroke Association have had a , a , a week specifically aimed at people with chest problems , or , or looking at chest problems . |
| 17 | It 's here , it 's called Thirsty Camel and it 's the first spring water for men ! |
| 18 | But I think we should , it 's like today , where was I , Battersea area , I think and it 's the first shop I 'd seen that actually had Chinese model manikins in the window , I thought they were sw pretty unusual . |
| 19 | There were three men named Robert Bindloss , and it is the first Sir Robert , a famous character , who is of particular interest in this context because of his fame in the wool trade . |
| 20 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 21 | Its most important role at the time , however , in common with other dual-purpose breeds , was in the production of first-class veal and yarded ‘ baby beef ’ ( slaughtered at less than 15 months old ) and it was the first breed to be used for this trade because of its early maturity . |
| 22 | we had a lot of affection for it really and , I mean we 've had it so long and it was the first furniture we had when we married |
| 23 | It was fairly erm revolutionary at the time in in the fact it was really adopting a client server approach in network computing , and it was the first way to do that . |
| 24 | And it was the first public result attributable to the second generation at Pininfarina , Pinin 's son Sergio and his brother-in-law , Renzo Carli . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Indica seemed a good name for an art gallery ’ , says Miles , ‘ and it was the first name in Latin for marijuana . |
| 26 | To Gilbert Seldes the movie had ‘ no fixed form , no standards ’ and it was the first form ( of art and entertainment ) to be developed in the era of universal ( that is low-standard ) education . |
| 27 | ‘ Once we got to the hospital I could feel her head and it was the first moment it all became real for me . |
| 28 | Mel Smith has been on the opening show of two series so far , and it was the first thing he mentioned . |
| 29 | And it was the First World War that killed him , he had a brain damage , you know a stroke . |
| 30 | George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process . |