Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 2 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 3 | Salford , battling with Bradford to avoid going down with Swinton , are without four first choice players at Widnes , whose wretched end to the season continues with eight regular injured . |
| 4 | It should have been a relatively easy game as Bracknell were without many first team regulars , but their youngsters were a credit as they hustled Abingdon all the way . |
| 5 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 7 | Yeah that 's in that first photo in n it ? |
| 8 | The second advocacy exercise is on that first er timetable called unsupervised mitigation . |
| 9 | She stressed what a violent man he was during this first marriage : ‘ But , after the break-up , Joan just wanted to forget him . ’ |
| 10 | It was during this first day of the journey that Tallis realized they were not the only travellers moving north , towards the marshlands . |
| 11 | How fine everything was in that first careless year ) . |
| 12 | It was in this first temple period that the Minoan vase makers began to tackle hard exotic stones , like the rosso antico from the Greek mainland and the white-speckled obsidian from Yiali near Karpathos in the Dodecanese . |
| 13 | How frightened of dying I was in those first days . |