Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pron] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His trip here was a homecoming , and there were times when I could see in his eyes that he was reliving his first memories . |
| 2 | Sir Charles Morrison , Mr Simon Parker-Bowles , and Norman Squires , and his wife , the latter was enjoying her first visit to London ! |
| 3 | Raising her eyes to Rozanov , she asked in lighter tones how he was enjoying his first visit to England . |
| 4 | Next it was Hunt 's turn to be confused by the Australian Warwick Brown , who was driving his first race and who , practically without gears , was going as near zero as possible in the middle of the chicane . |
| 5 | This was Silver , a nephew of the Threarah , who was serving his first month in the Owsla . |
| 6 | The current world champion , Blyth Tait , was paying his first visit to Poplar Park and was very satisfied with the performances of his trio , Messiah , Ricochet and Tempo . |
| 7 | They made a direct appeal to Mr Clarke as he was paying his first visit to a police station since taking over at the Home Office . |
| 8 | Sarah , 27 , was attempting her first marathon , but admits it has given her the ‘ bug ’ . |
| 9 | Don Cribb from Systems and Equipment Engineering Department , was attempting his first London Marathon . |
| 10 | She looked very young , as if she was wearing her first evening dress ; and in this photo she looked less heavy-featured ; rather piquant , a touch of mischief , almost a shy delectation in being queen of a cabinet of curiosa . |
| 11 | Another early memory was getting my first train set . |
| 12 | Just occasionally the tensions spilled over , such as when she berated Moira publicly about the way she was feeding her first child . |
| 13 | It had been announced only a month ago that she was expecting her first child and would probably be leaving after the spring term . |
| 14 | Claire had always planned to set up her own practice and she left Coopers in December 1989 , when she was expecting her first child . |
| 15 | He was written about enthusiastically in the New York Times , offered a recording contract by CBS Records , and by the end of that year was cutting his first album . |
| 16 | The 21-year-old was spending her first night at Sussex University , near Brighton , when she was woken at about 4am by a man who turned on the bedroom light , held a knife to her throat and raped her , before escaping through the open window by which he had entered . |
| 17 | Then she was having her first baby . |
| 18 | Gispy Fiddler put Jonjo on cloud nine with a Royal Ascot win two years ago and was having his first run for almost a year when shaping well behind Bit Of A Lark at Haydock . |
| 19 | Kinane , who was having his first Arc ride , said : ‘ I had quickened past Behera when Carroll House hung across and it did n't affect the result . |
| 20 | Others were on the edge of the storm and Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott had a wild ride with young Sub-Lieutenant White , who was having his first introduction to canoe reconnaissance . |
| 21 | She hopped all the way home , arms wide and waving as if she was taking her first lesson in tightrope walking . |
| 22 | Across the globe in that year , 1962 , 21-year old Richard Neville was taking his first step into journalism , editing the University of New South Wales student paper , Tharunka . |
| 23 | Despite all his international experience with England and the Lions , he will be out there tomorrow as if he was winning his first cap and that 's a priceless commodity . |
| 24 | At Comdex , a two year old Ojai , California-based company , Musitek Inc , was showing its first product , which it claims has cracked the problem on a personal computer . |
| 25 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 26 | I was making my first inroads into a superb specimen of the amber fluid when Sally walked in . |
| 27 | The leader , with four-under par was Jim Thorpe , a comparatively unknown black professional , who had made several unsuccessful attempts to qualify for the Championship and was making his first appearance . |
| 28 | The 30-year-old Mandale Harrier was making his first appearance over the country for a year , but he broke clear on the second of the three laps of a gruelling nine kilometre course and held off a late challenge by Newton Aycliffe 's Kevin Vose to win by an emphatic 13 seconds . |
| 29 | The most cheerful remarks seemed to have been made about the health of Michael Heseltine , who was making his first appearance at the cabinet since his heart attack . |
| 30 | After just six weeks , Rigby was playing her first gig behind Gedge and Solowka in a band called The Truth , who were obviously nothing to do with the chart group of the same name . |