Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 13 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 14 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 15 | It was on the first tape . |
| 16 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 23 | In the main , it was a time of misery which unknowingly strengthened her character and at the same time introduced her to a friendship which resulted in her opening her eyes to another way of life , a life that she recognised and knew she could fit into ; for it was during the first summer holiday that she was invited to spend a day with Annabel at her home . |
| 24 | It was during the first four decades of the twentieth century that the major contours of psychoanalytic theory were first developed by Freud . |
| 25 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 26 | When he spoke , it was from the first Tory bench below the gangway , the place he used as a backbencher before his ministerial days , in his youth as the Chingford Skinhead . |
| 27 | It was from the first century B.C. onwards that the vast white marble quarries at Carrara were developed and that quantities of Greek marble were shipped to Italy from Hymettus and Pentelicus . |
| 28 | It was from the first bound up with the establishment of a foreign ministry archive . |
| 29 | It was from the first of December for the address although they were actually |
| 30 | It was after the first snow and I followed the clanging ploughs up the Dale , bumping along between high white mounds till I reached old Mr Stokill 's gate . |