Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were enjoying the first fresh food they had had in weeks before settling down for a long , well-earned rest . |
| 2 | Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine |
| 3 | By the end of the eighteenth century , the seaside resorts were undergoing the first stages of the process that was to transform the seaside holiday from an exclusive upper-class recreation into a national institution . |
| 4 | They were hauling the first of the thin , encasing layers over the top of the frame , the heavily-suited men pulling on the guide ropes . |
| 5 | So if we were talking about the Middle Ages we had Gregorian chants , or if we were doing the First World War we had First-world-war songs . |
| 6 | When they were doing the first picture they had , I think it was . |
| 7 | were doing the first |
| 8 | While such behaviour can not be condoned , an occasional show of controlled passion from England 's bowlers would not have gone amiss on the same ground when Australia were winning the first Test . |
| 9 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 10 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 11 | Well before I went to Hemel Hempstead , my father was dredging the first part of the quay at six hundred feet , what we call a six hundred feet , the first part and er I used to take his dinner down , because he 'd , he would n't have anything cooked aboard the ship . |
| 12 | At a time when Western Europe was enjoying the first benefits of industrial society , trade with the west was actually stultifying social progress and the development of industry in Poland and Prussia , and particularly in backward Pomerania . |
| 13 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
| 14 | Getting out her suitcase , and with her fury riding high , she began throwing her belongings into it — she was catching the first plane out of there ! |
| 15 | N.P.W. Hancock was leading the first seven Hurricanes , this flight meeting Sunderland L5807 of 228 Squadron as planned , and reaching the island without any problems . |
| 16 | Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth . |
| 17 | When I come back in , things was all up in the air because while he was moving the first position of the dust extractor , there 's a radio there . |
| 18 | James Brown when receiving our first album ‘ Box Frenzy ’ — ‘ I was expecting the first Clash album and got the third Sham 69 album ’ — which we thought was a bit of a compliment . |
| 19 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
| 21 | He had knocked on the back door while she was kneading the first batch of bread dough she had ever made in her life — something to do , she thought crossly , with coming to the country — and she had gone to answer him with floury hands and a frown . |
| 22 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 23 | Doreen , she realised , was having the first of her private talks with Silas , and she longed to know if the barrier he had raised was about to crumble . |
| 24 | The story is told of a professor who was giving the first lecture of the year to a group of new medical students . |
| 25 | She could n't quite believe she was taking the first few tentative steps back towards her marriage . |
| 26 | It was early morning and Sara was taking the first typing session of the day . |
| 27 | I was quite wet when I was drinking the first Martini . |
| 28 | Reuben Boll was unwrapping the first of the boiled sweets he bought each morning in Tadley . |
| 29 | By the time she 'd elbowed the door open with two steaming mugs of tea , I had was reading the first thing which had come to hand . |
| 30 | Hoxton was thriving with small businesses , and Benjamin was showing the first signs of a schizophrenic uncertainty about what his official professional title should be : the commercial directories for 1853 list him as a General Salesman , while Henry Joseph 's birth certificate plays safe with ‘ Silversmith ’ . |