Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] on the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 2 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 3 | There they were on the first , belated , league Saturday of the season , celebrating their arrival in the first division , unveiling new-look Sunbury as a showpiece of healthy ambition and running Bath so close that the perennial might of the champions was instantly called into question . |
| 4 | The Rye are proof that this idea works : they were on the first tour two years ago and are now probably the hottest property in the region . |
| 5 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 6 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 7 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 8 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 9 | It was on the first tape . |
| 10 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 11 | He was on the first train into London and founded the earliest Railway Magazine in 1835 . |
| 12 | Mind you , erm , I have n't been conscious about him at all , even when he was on the first of all . |