Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering |
| 2 | I was normally the first RAF person to view the scene , and I find it quite unbearable to attempt to describe the desolation and carnage that confronted one on a hilltop in the isolation and splendour of the Scottish Highlands . |
| 3 | Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather . |
| 4 | The early evening rush hour slowed my return to Stuart Street but I was still the first home to No. 9 , and even Lisabeth seemed to be out or at least locked in her cage . |
| 5 | There was ‘ a foreign substance which can be felt by touch under the skin of the neck ’ , which was presumably the first and fatal bullet fired by Abbas Mohamed . |
| 6 | ) . Their biggest hit was called ‘ But I Love Sergeyevitch ! ’ which was probably the first pop song to treat Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev in a friendly if rather frivolous manner . |
| 7 | But the purpose of the operation was completely transformed by Bush 's decision to double the number of troops , which was clearly the first step towards a war this year . |
| 8 | A Vietnamese airport official said they went through the usual passport and customs procedures and then boarded buses to Soc San reception centre which was also the first stop for almost 600 boat people who returned voluntarily from Hong Kong earlier this year . |
| 9 | In 1859 missionaries published Nigeria 's first paper , which was also the first African paper in an African language . |
| 10 | The Story of the Fraserburgh Lifeboats takes a similar look at the Fraserburgh lifeboat station , which had one of the first lifeboats to be built and which was also the first RNLI lifeboat station in Scotland . |
| 11 | The first is the 1868 St Petersburg Declaration , which was indeed the first major international agreement prohibiting the use of a particular weapon in warfare — namely the explosive bullet . |
| 12 | Not only was she was the first woman ever to gain the imperial throne by her own machinations , she was also the first to institute the practice of official cunnilingus . |
| 13 | She was also the first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro . |
| 14 | She was also the first woman painter to achieve this status . |
| 15 | She was always the first to start work in the morning and the last to stop at night . |
| 16 | Only one of the eagles was out , and that was the tawny eagle , which was strange , since in this weather she was usually the first to take shelter . |
| 17 | Prominent in artist-ministry public relations was the etcher Muirhead Bone , who was also the first British War Artist , serving as such in both World Wars . |
| 18 | Prominent in artist-ministry public relations was the etcher Muirhead Bone , who was also the first British War Artist , serving as such in both World Wars . |
| 19 | Boutros Ghali , 69 , who was also the first Arab to assume the post , acquired an international reputation as a key negotiator at the 1978 Camp David talks between Egypt and Israel , and as the architect of Egypt 's policy towards sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 20 | Mr Padget , 29 Prout Street , who was usually the first to receive his meal , had been struck off . |
| 21 | Marie , their high-spirited young nanny , had endless patience with the timid child who was always the first to dissolve into tears . |
| 22 | At an uncertain date between late August and late September there was also a first meeting with a virtually unknown poet and radical called William Wordsworth , two years Coleridge 's senior . |
| 23 | When a conductor spilt a cup of boiling water over Mrs Allason 's mother there was neither a first aid box on board nor a phone to call for help . |
| 24 | NICRA was the best-known civil rights group but it was neither the first nor the only organisation to agitate on civil rights demands . |
| 25 | It was also a first for TES . |
| 26 | It was also a first success for the drivers in the race and a particular personal triumph for ex-Formula One driver Warwick , who failed at the track with Jaguar in 1986 and 1991 . |
| 27 | It was also the first occasion on which the bishop of Rome is known to have invoked the text of Matthew 16 : 18 to justify his primatial jurisdiction . |
| 28 | It was also the first major examination in Britain of the whole nuclear controversy . |
| 29 | It was also the first to be held since the redecoration of the Tuileries had restored the palace to its former splendour ; this it had lost not only because it had been ransacked by the mob in 1848 , but also because it had become shabby during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 30 | It was also the first time he had driven with navigator John Anthony , a retired fire officer from South Nutfield . |