Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 The FMLN motto is : " land is collective property , it belongs to everyone and is for everyone " ; and they are undertaking the first steps towards a genuine agrarian reform .
2 The police and the courts should be the last resort for handling football indiscipline and we are reaching the stage where they are becoming the first .
3 When we 're doing first aid incidents erm the standard thing we 're doing for adults when they 're doing a first aid exam is we 'll give present them with a casualty with perhaps a cut hand or something like that and they 'll actually have a black eye .
4 They were enjoying the first fresh food they had had in weeks before settling down for a long , well-earned rest .
5 When they were doing the first picture they had , I think it was .
6 They were hauling the first of the thin , encasing layers over the top of the frame , the heavily-suited men pulling on the guide ropes .
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