Example sentences of "[pron] be [v-ing] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was quite wet when I was drinking the first Martini . |
| 2 | ‘ I told him if he would n't stay in Copenhagen with me than I was catching the first plane home ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From such protests , and meetings in family homes , grew the Stroud based Menigitis Trust , which is organising the first international conference , being held in Britain next week , aimed at wiping out the disease . |
| 5 | When you are doing the first draft , label as many points on the axes as possible . |
| 6 | Wendy Georgeson , of Lerwick , who is entering the first year of an LLB law degree course at the University of Edinburgh ; |
| 7 | He has not learned how to love properly , how to relate with a woman in a caring sense but , above all , he has not learned how to differentiate between an adolescent who is feeling the first stirring of her hormones and a fully-grown woman who is properly able to make her own emotional and sexual choices . |
| 8 | Joe Robertson , of Lochend , who is starting the first year of Bachelor of Education ( Technology ) course at the Moray House College of Education . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | She could n't quite believe she was taking the first few tentative steps back towards her marriage . |
| 11 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There were still bits and pieces left to organize for the coming weekend , when she was hosting the first major social gathering of the new year . |
| 14 | The story is told of a professor who was giving the first lecture of the year to a group of new medical students . |
| 15 | We are using the first two forms ( No 1581 and No 1650 ) despite this , but the third form ( No 1655 ) is completely unusable and we are having to reorder . |
| 16 | Even so , we are taking the first steps in a long journey towards an understanding of the body clock and the way it adjusts to our environment . |
| 17 | TODAY we are printing the first of two special tokens you 'll need to cash in with our latest EXCLUSIVE offer . |
| 18 | We are creating the first annual Hall of Shame to show that personalities are willing to take the plaudits , but do not seem too willing to accept the responsibilities that go with their positions . |
| 19 | And just when we are recording the first positive signs of an upward trend in sales and net profit margins we are hit with the financial problems of a major hotel group like Queens Moat Houses . |
| 20 | They 're clearing the way for the new 600 series and we 're seeing the first evidence of the Japanese working practises . |
| 21 | The latest from Glasgow is the system is starting up again , we 're doing the first one on the twenty fourth of September erm , the Theatre Royal had , we 're doing three |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The FMLN motto is : " land is collective property , it belongs to everyone and is for everyone " ; and they are undertaking the first steps towards a genuine agrarian reform . |
| 25 | The police and the courts should be the last resort for handling football indiscipline and we are reaching the stage where they are becoming the first . |
| 26 | They were enjoying the first fresh food they had had in weeks before settling down for a long , well-earned rest . |
| 27 | When they were doing the first picture they had , I think it was . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I 'm dead against this , er , on principle , I think it 's cutting the first sod of the hole that you 're preparing to dig yourselves . |
| 30 | With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent . |