Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [prep] the 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 | Mm cos you were in the first one were n't you ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 13 | We were in the First Division far too fleetingly and this is an opportunity for everyone to show what a big club Portsmouth really are . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 15 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
| 16 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |
| 17 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 18 | There they were on the first , belated , league Saturday of the season , celebrating their arrival in the first division , unveiling new-look Sunbury as a showpiece of healthy ambition and running Bath so close that the perennial might of the champions was instantly called into question . |
| 19 | The Rye are proof that this idea works : they were on the first tour two years ago and are now probably the hottest property in the region . |
| 20 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 21 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 22 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 23 | They were in the first place monotheists . |
| 24 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 25 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly they were among the first fossils to attract widespread attention . |
| 27 | When the exodus of children from Germany and Austria began , they were among the first to respond . |
| 28 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
| 29 | At that time she had known few people in the district , for they were among the first of the incomers , and Camille had been only a baby with the consequent ailments , accidents and dissatisfactions . |
| 30 | Three of them were among the first to be evacuated by the Red Cross from the notorious Banja Luka camp . |