Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love to go out dancing but you wo n't catch me being the first on the dance floor ! |
| 2 | Do you know who was the first to coach the men 's and women 's champions in one year ? |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , come on , you do n't really think you 're the first man who 's issued me this kind of invitation ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Oh no , darling , you did n't think you were the first clever little bitch to have the idea ? |
| 5 | ‘ Anyhow , since the earliest Mr Gajdusek will see me is the first week in April , it could n't have worked out better . ’ |
| 6 | Sun will claim it 's the first machine capable of running an entire database out of main memory . |
| 7 | What can you mind what was the first sort of action on Hoy that impressed you cos Well you 'd been there all your life you would have really seen the whole process happening . |
| 8 | Lets hope it 's the last one of those type of chances that he missed this season . |
| 9 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 10 | ‘ You out with your latest mistress , running into the last , though I do n't suppose I was the last . |
| 11 | Yeah well they do n't think it was they do n't think it was the first one , no . |
| 12 | I mean the the stuff 's due to come in on Friday , he reckons it 'll get it 's the fourth on Friday is n't it ? |
| 13 | I do n't think anything 's the twelfth of July . |
| 14 | Well I would n't say you 're the last |
| 15 | Nex anyway it 's quite near Portsmouth and we heard that the first Queen Elizabeth ship , they do n't say it 's the first but they call this one the Q E Two but there was a Q E One , you see at one time and so we took a coach from there to Southampton because we heard that she was in dock there and so we went and there were crowds of people and all in a queue waiting to go in . |
| 16 | ‘ I would n't say it was the last ditch for the capercaillie . |