Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [v-ing] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reuben Boll was unwrapping the first of the boiled sweets he bought each morning in Tadley . |
| 2 | Zambia 's balance of payments situation steadily worsened after 1975 , and by 1978 the IMF was arranging the first of a series of standby facilities , and one extended fund facility ( 1981–83 ) . |
| 3 | N.P.W. Hancock was leading the first seven Hurricanes , this flight meeting Sunderland L5807 of 228 Squadron as planned , and reaching the island without any problems . |
| 4 | While such behaviour can not be condoned , an occasional show of controlled passion from England 's bowlers would not have gone amiss on the same ground when Australia were winning the first Test . |
| 5 | It was early morning and Sara was taking the first typing session of the day . |
| 6 | At a time when Western Europe was enjoying the first benefits of industrial society , trade with the west was actually stultifying social progress and the development of industry in Poland and Prussia , and particularly in backward Pomerania . |
| 7 | Dick was describing the first flight of the fifth airworthy Hurricane in the world on the day that it tragically became the fourth . |
| 8 | Hoxton was thriving with small businesses , and Benjamin was showing the first signs of a schizophrenic uncertainty about what his official professional title should be : the commercial directories for 1853 list him as a General Salesman , while Henry Joseph 's birth certificate plays safe with ‘ Silversmith ’ . |
| 9 | While Dorothy was making the first entries in her journal that new year Coleridge continued to write poetry with undiminished fluency , both at Stowey and Alfoxden . |
| 10 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |