Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I 'm the first woman who has asked for their vote . ’ |
| 2 | So we 're the first to have them after them gaining number one . |
| 3 | So we were the first to have them after they get number one . |
| 4 | So they 're the first up with the Christmas tree decorations each year . |
| 5 | So he was the first person who united the states of Castille and Leon , and the first who was called King of Castille ; for till this time the lords of that country had been called Counts . |
| 6 | So it 's the first will she made — what ? — eighteen months ago , which is valid . ’ |
| 7 | Ah so it 's the first person who spells sex maniac |
| 8 | We 're , working on an hotel project I think and we 're up to week thirteen on the programme and I think you might be able to see on week thirteen and given the information we 've got at the moment as well , it means we 're gon na be working on three floors at once so it was the first thing to identify . |
| 9 | Admittedly in one or two cases the inference is fairly marginal but nevertheless it 's the first time all the numbers have been positive . |
| 10 | Now admittedly it 's an increase of two thousand out of about half a million so one is n't sort of er er getting over excited about it but nevertheless it 's the first upward number which we 've had . |
| 11 | No time like the present and anyway it is the first day of Lent . ’ |
| 12 | Anyway it 's the first time since the Revie years that we 've won 5 on the trot in the league so lets just be happy for a while . |
| 13 | Well , every now and then it 's the second date , but generally it 's the first . |
| 14 | Moreover it is the first to offer direct hooks to the C++ programming language and last week , Iona , Sunsoft Inc and Hewlett-Packard made a joint submission to the Object Management Group proposing a standard C++ CORBA interface . |
| 15 | Moreover it is the first to offer direct hooks to the C++ programming language and last Friday , Iona , Sunsoft Inc and Hewlett-Packard made a joint submission to the Object Management Group proposing a standard C++ CORBA interface . |
| 16 | He continued to conduct retreats : the old students at Cuddesdon , clergy at Pleshey in Essex , the Franciscans at Cerne Abbas in Dorset , the nuns at Whitby ; probably he was the first archbishop in the history of the see to make so much time for such days of peace , even though , for the conductor , they were days of intellectual and emotional effort . |
| 17 | Now , now you 're the first person who 's said you used ill ill illegal drugs , I yes ? |
| 18 | Now she 's the first patient being treated at the hospital 's new dermatology building . |
| 19 | This , I discovered , is common in lung cancer ; in fact , quite often it is the first symptom to show itself — well before any pain or cough develops . |
| 20 | You want labourers , you pray for labourers , well you 're the first one ! |
| 21 | Tomorrow we are the first . |
| 22 | ‘ Well it 's the first I 've heard of it , frankly . ’ |
| 23 | Well it 's the first thing that comes . |
| 24 | Well it 's the first time I 've been |
| 25 | Jackie said to me last week she said , well it 's the first of December . |
| 26 | Right , well it 's the first of the big snooker tournaments starting tonight ; are you a snooker fan ? |
| 27 | Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro |
| 28 | Six months ago he was the first to say publicly , ‘ The Government will have to sit down round the table with the terrorists . ’ |
| 29 | Surprisingly it was the first time that Arsenal 's all-star attack had scored three goals in a game this season as they wrecked Coventry 's unbeaten away record with superb strikes from Alan Smith , Ian Wright and Kevin Campbell . |
| 30 | Several boys went to the fi to the fitting shop you see but the I 'd started I claimed to have started I mean it 's I mean there 's no credit to me but at least I was the first You know I 'd really started the thing you know . |