Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was duly bandaged by the first aid folk , and then placed in position . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 3 | The match hinged on the confrontation between Christy O'Connor Jnr and Mark James and it was effectively settled at the first hole . |
| 4 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
| 5 | The move was widely regarded as the first step towards full normalization of diplomatic relations , which had been suspended after the communist victory in the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 6 | Chris Armstrong and Paul Williams have yet to strike up a true understanding in the Palace attack and despite some promising service from wingers John Salako and McGoldrick , Gunners ' keeper David Seaman was rarely troubled during the first half . |
| 7 | Built in Hellenistic times this market place was greatly enlarged in the first and second centuries A.D. to become one of the largest in the Roman world . |
| 8 | Amateur Champion Stephen Dundas was only named as the first reserve … |
| 9 | The right to national self-determination was formally included in the first programme of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( RSDLP ) , but was accorded a relatively low priority . |
| 10 | He was rudely asked by the first caller , ‘ Do you feel that you come across OK ? |
| 11 | ‘ I have loved Jacob , ’ says the God of Malachi ( 1.2–3 ; Malachi was probably written in the first half of the fifth century BCE ) , ‘ but I have hated Esau . ’ |
| 12 | Strangely , it was later used for the first city telegraph ! |
| 13 | Fibre Channel Standard technology was also featured for the first time in a cluster and high-speed networking environment . |
| 14 | On the way back from that holiday in Provence , the party stopped in Paris , which John was also seeing for the first time . |
| 15 | There was another major upset when Ross Norman , the sixth-seeded New Zealander who won the world title in 1986 by ending Jahangir Khan 's 51 2 -year unbeaten run , was also eliminated from the first round . |
| 16 | His son , Charles Power , wrote a famous guide-book to Madeira which was regularly up-dated during the first half of this century . |
| 17 | But the results of Fig. 5.2 show that the degree of suppression evoked by a test stimulus does not depend upon whether or not it was appetitively reinforced during the first stage . |
| 18 | This was conveniently encapsulated in the first try . |
| 19 | But in 1888 , two years after my father was born , the newly constituted county councils were created and Oxfordshire was systematically governed for the first time . |
| 20 | However , as it was intended that this study should be of particular use to the suppliers of information , it was therefore biased towards the first stage of environmental scanning ; that is , the gathering of information . |
| 21 | It 's as if I 've wasted my life searching for something that was never lost in the first place . |
| 22 | The need for additional financing was significantly reduced after the first quarter of 1992 and , partly by using cash balances , we repaid borrowings in both the third and fourth quarters . |
| 23 | The existence of the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , commonly known as MI6 , was publicly acknowledged for the first time by the government when Major announced on May 6 that the service would , like its domestic intelligence counterpart MI5 [ see p. 37158 ] , be placed on a statutory basis during the 1992-93 session of Parliament , and confirmed that its Chief was Sir Colin McColl . |
| 24 | Neither goalkeeper was seriously threatened in the first half , with the exception of a speculative 25-yard drive in the 15th minute by Love , who was making his first-team debut for the Edinburgh club . |
| 25 | Elected to the representative board ( 1879 ) which was to be responsible for the foundation of the British Dental Association , he was subsequently appointed to the first editorial committee of the Journal of the BDA , and was BDA president in 1884 . |