Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps , in spite of the fact that she did need the money , what she ought to do was just catch the first plane back home . |
| 2 | The duty plant operator , Lance-Corporal Adcock , was just finishing the first parade service on his equipment — a Henley Hermes fork-lift truck with a twenty-five-ton lifting capacity . |
| 3 | A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute . |
| 4 | It , too , was moving fast , and was clearly chasing the first sledge . |
| 5 | Nizan was clearly showing the first signs of a defensive strategy that he would deploy to great effect throughout the remainder of his life . |
| 6 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 7 | That summer , George Ball , the master ( who was later to become the first hospital secretary of Bedford General Hospital ) joined the R.A.F. A special committee met in order to appoint a temporary master , and George 's father , Walter Mills Ball , a retired poor-law officer , offered to fill his place while his son was serving . |
| 8 | By the mid 1950s the OCU was also training the first of the foreign aircrew whose governments had bought various marks of Canberras . |
| 9 | He was also to obtain the first formal recognition from the pope of the right of the crown to nominate holders of major benefices , before the kings of either France or Spain ; and he indulged grandiose dreams of annexing continental territories . |
| 10 | Apple Computer Inc says it is still on target for mid-1994 launch of its first RISC-based Macintosh after IBM Corp announced that it was now shipping the first PowerPC chips to Apple . |
| 11 | In the late Thirties the Baroness Hila Rebay was busy looking for a name for the new art museum her mentor Solomon R. Guggenheim was about to found and of which she was about to become the first director . |
| 12 | The next candidate , Richard Baxter , was unanimously chosen the first time they heard him preach . |
| 13 | Strachan 's quick thinking at a free kick caused confusion , and Speed was there to head the first . |
| 14 | It was n't until 1890 that Halling had its own station and on the morning of its opening the School Master John Scholey was there to buy the first ticket . |
| 15 | There was no stopping the first , but the second ; well it was more to do with bad defence , than good attack . |
| 16 | ‘ I was actually remembering the first part ! |