Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] [art] 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 | I was at the first one when I was fifteen . |
| 3 | ‘ I was in the First Division , when I did my time on the beat . |
| 4 | I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether . |
| 5 | I found them , and in a minute I was in the first room , where Bersonin and Detchard were . |
| 6 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The fire brigade which was at the first blaze about 100 yards away extinguished the second fire in a short time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 13 | Exams and erm she was about the first I think and there was erm somebody else who wanted to take a course in erm Youth Leadership but erm , very quickly the numbers increased till the time I left of course we , we were dealing with thousands |
| 14 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 15 | At the start of the second world war , there was an enormous expansion in the Territorial Army , as there was in the first world war . |
| 16 | ( Last time I saw him there was in the first half vs Arse , where * Hodge * ! was given the right side … |
| 17 | than there was in the first place . |
| 18 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 21 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 22 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 23 | It was on the first tape . |
| 24 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 25 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 26 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 27 | In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 . |
| 28 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 29 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 30 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |