Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ May I be among the first to offer my congratulations ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm on the first flight to Milan in the morning . ’ |
| 3 | Then , lo and behold , at 17 I 'm in the first team . |
| 4 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 5 | I was at the first one when I was fifteen . |
| 6 | ‘ I was in the First Division , when I did my time on the beat . |
| 7 | I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether . |
| 8 | I found them , and in a minute I was in the first room , where Bersonin and Detchard were . |
| 9 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 10 | Until Ronnie 's death , as a result of his injuries at the start of the race — I was among the first at the scene and recall vividly the exsanguine look on Ronnie 's face and the mangle of his legs — they were separated by a mere 13 points : the final margin between them , because Mario scored no further points that season . |
| 11 | Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act . |
| 12 | Although we know that it is easy enough to gain weight or eat unhealthily without indulging in desserts and sweet things , it is usually this ‘ extra ’ which is among the first to go when you are trying to keep to a low-calorie , low-fat regime . |
| 13 | just to point out to members that the promised report on the lorry management plan which is in the first preparation has been put back to the January committee meeting on the Highways Committee so that we can get full advantage from the traffic and |
| 14 | The first two rounds of voting — in north Lebanon and the Bekaa on Aug. 23 , and in Beirut and Mount Lebanon on Aug. 30 — produced some wins for Hezbollah , an Islamic group aligned with Syrian policy-making which was for the first time participating in elections as a parliamentary party . |
| 15 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 16 | Cannabis comes from hemp , which was among the first plants to be domesticated , especially in parts of South-East Asia , where it is a valuable source of fibre for making rope and twine . |
| 17 | To Dr Porter , " in a multitude of small ways , the poor law served as a thorough-going system of support " which was in the first half of the eigh-teenth century " quite generous in their paternalist supplements to domestic income " . |
| 18 | Should doctors always be so keen to offer abortion as the only solution to women who are in the first throes of disappointment and depression at the news that their baby is not genetically perfect ? |
| 19 | It contains traces of people who are among the first to be photographed in city streets anywhere in the world . |
| 20 | If you are on the first field of an option and you press BACKSPACE , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 21 | That grant is ring fenced , it can only be spent on community care defined elements , it includes the recognition that as well as buying care for people , you are for the first time , er , assessing people 's needs . |
| 22 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |
| 23 | Monica Hicks of the Association of University Teachers argues that the proposal of split firsts is a distraction : ‘ If you 're in the first category , further refining is an unnecessary detail . ’ |
| 24 | Two ambulancemen , Mr Alan Woods and Mr Rob Lloyd of Putney Ambulance Station , who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the disaster a year ago , watched the morning trains speed by . |
| 25 | There are women miners here who were among the first to be laid off when Pittston sacked 4,000 of its 6,000 unionised miners in the early Eighties . |
| 26 | Mm cos you were in the first one were n't you ? |
| 27 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 28 | ‘ She 's on the first floor . ’ |
| 29 | Like when she 's in the first two classes it wo n't matter so but as she 'll approach the G C S C |
| 30 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |