Example sentences of "and [pron] be the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We put the staff in costumes instead of uniforms and we were the first to really ‘ love ’ children while other restaurants tolerated them . ’ |
| 2 | Yes , and there was the first of the three dead cows . |
| 3 | Well , maybe the first four or five will , and he 's the first of the five . |
| 4 | Sadly , Marks did not last very long and he was the first of the Commanding Officers of the four founder squadrons to he lost in battle ; this was flat only great loss to the squadron , hut certainly to the Pathfinders . |
| 5 | His interest in politics came partly from it , and he was the first of a string of Thatcherite Tories to come from St Andrews . |
| 6 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 7 | This is the ship named after the hero of the Argentine Navy in the 19th century , and it is the first of four Meko type destroyers that Buenos Aires has purchased from the Hamburg shipyard ( who in turn have been supplied with Rolls-Royce engines ) . |
| 8 | They also renamed it The Enterprise , and it was the first of 27 engines built by the foundry in 25 years . |