Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ May I be among the first to offer my congratulations ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm on the first flight to Milan in the morning . ’ |
| 3 | Then , lo and behold , at 17 I 'm in the first team . |
| 4 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 5 | I was at the first one when I was fifteen . |
| 6 | ‘ I was in the First Division , when I did my time on the beat . |
| 7 | I was in the first party to leave and there were about fifty of us altogether . |
| 8 | I found them , and in a minute I was in the first room , where Bersonin and Detchard were . |
| 9 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If you are on the first field of an option and you press BACKSPACE , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 12 | That grant is ring fenced , it can only be spent on community care defined elements , it includes the recognition that as well as buying care for people , you are for the first time , er , assessing people 's needs . |
| 13 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |
| 14 | Monica Hicks of the Association of University Teachers argues that the proposal of split firsts is a distraction : ‘ If you 're in the first category , further refining is an unnecessary detail . ’ |
| 15 | Mm cos you were in the first one were n't you ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's on the first floor . ’ |
| 18 | Like when she 's in the first two classes it wo n't matter so but as she 'll approach the G C S C |
| 19 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | He said : ‘ We are in the first stages of saturation coverage . |
| 22 | We are in the First Class with Alan Frame of the Express , and all the monkeys are in the back . |
| 23 | But we were without a first officer . |
| 24 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
| 30 | Now , however , having regard to what was learnt by C.N.L. 's counsel whilst sitting in court during the successful appeal , they are for the first time in a position to raise a plea of justification . |