Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Allen Ginsberg was writing his first major work Howl that summer in the Village . |
| 2 | Over the ‘ Diesel Weekend ’ the centre played host to Class 08 shunter D2138 which was operating its first public passenger train since being obtained by the line . |
| 3 | The beneficiary of the DFP 's comparatively poor showing was the Dominica United Workers ' Party ( DUWP ) , formed in July 1988 [ see pp. 37073-74 ] , which was contesting its first general election . |
| 4 | LITTLE Laura Davies was spending her first full day back at home in Britain today . |
| 5 | Hagley led to the summit of Carnedd Dafydd , reaching it in 47 minutes 30 seconds , and he never once surrendered his lead despite a spirited challenge from Paul Jenkinson , who was running his first fell race . |
| 6 | Consequently she was having her first decent sleep in a couple of nights when her alarm clock went off the next morning . |
| 7 | AT the age of 14 I was having my first sexual relationship — with a married man who was also a father-to-be . |
| 8 | Human culture , which at this period was making its first faltering steps towards thorough-going agriculturalism and the full-scale Neolithic Revolution which it was to bring in its train , seems to have found the loss of the ur-mother of the primal hunting and gathering society hard to get over . |
| 9 | Now , however , Nietzsche was making his first serious attempt to put into practice the " wholeness " he aspired to . |
| 10 | Mr Wright , a widower with one son and two grandchildren , was making his first operational parachute drop when he bailed out of an aircraft over Arnhem in September 1944 . |
| 11 | The latter victory was also somewhat remarkable as Cordwell , who is ranked one place above Reggi in 19th , was playing her first serious singles match since a back injury forced her out for the game almost six months ago . |
| 12 | Lyndon Hooper another Canadian from the same backwater as was playing his first full game for Birmingham . |