Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [prep] first " in BNC.
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1 | If the person has been prepared for First Communion by being helped to develop a sense of belonging with others who believe , by being helped to develop a sense of the sacred , and by being helped to develop a sense of the presence of Jesus , and a desire to be in communion with Him and in communion with the others present , the experience of First Communion will be rich and powerful . |
2 | This has been established by first showing that the optimal response to these beliefs is linear in the type and then finding the sequence C t which is a fixed point in the map from beliefs to response . |
3 | well I think Dawn is quite happy now , I mean I think she felt as though she 'd been rushed at first , but I mean |
4 | all he was doing was listening at first and I thought oh no it 's so long |
5 | Emily Faithfull , young , confident and securely middle-class , appears to have been Operating from first principles rather than speaking or understanding the language of journeymen printers . |
6 | The door appears to have been entered at first floor level . |
7 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |
8 | On May 16 two white mine officials were killed in clashes at the nearby President Steyn gold mine , where black miners had been dismissed after first being attacked by their white colleagues for wearing ANC emblems . |
9 | His depression had been caused at first by what he considered to be the disturbing condition of the victors after the war : he was uneasy about the foreign policy of both England and the United States , as well as about the intentions of Russia . |
10 | It had been thrilling at first to start work for a real knight and his lady and to live in this tall mansion with its halls and parlours , its tapestries and suits of armour . |
11 | But they had been issued with first class tickets . |
12 | And , ironically , both opportunities to manage Glentoran Seconds have been presented by first team boss Robert Strain . |
13 | Where combined schools exist , usually in areas where primary and secondary schools have been replaced by first , middle and high schools and whole first and middle schools are occasionally run into a single ( combined school ) organization , there is some continuity of teacher programming from the age of 5 through to 12 years . |