Example sentences of "we were the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As though we were the first man and woman ever , walking in the Garden of Eden . |
| 2 | I suppose we were the first people in the 1960s to target our market and bring to people things that were well designed at an affordable price . |
| 3 | We were the first to automate all that . ’ |
| 4 | He went on : ‘ Looking back , the fact that we were the first to say Thatcher should go over the Lawson affair meant that we were in the game . |
| 5 | We were the first up the hill and had to break a path , so although a summer walk up Schiehallion is simple and quick to the point of disappointment , winter is a trifle harder . |
| 6 | We were the first British team ever to play in St Thomas and Tortoal ; in Anguilla we made history again because we played the first ever ‘ first-class ’ in England but it certainly will in Anguilla ! |
| 7 | I mean we were the first show to put Demis Roussos on . |
| 8 | We were the first to introduce phosphor bronze strings back in 1974 , and they 're our biggest-selling acoustic set . |
| 9 | But we were the first metal band to have a platinum album and the first metal band to sell six million albums in the States alone . |
| 10 | ‘ We were the first in the country to supply pre-installed networks , ’ says Mr Spiro , ‘ and all Elonex PCs come as a complete plug-in system with Windows 3.1 as standard . ’ |
| 11 | We were the first to act as Arranger and Dealer for a privatised water company . |
| 12 | I 'm not saying we were the first , bloody hell , it sounded dated when we did it . |
| 13 | In August , 1944 I was flying Mustangs from Grimbergen , through to the Arnhem campaign , and my memories are that we were the first RAF Squadron to be based near Brussels , and only a matter of a few days after our armies had liberated that City . |
| 14 | I promised to myself that I would never write an article about having a baby , never ever write that a baby was a celebration and examination of the mystery of our own being , and of course avoid the trap of believing that we were the first and only couple to have a baby . |
| 15 | In December 1989 , we received word from the European Commission that our application had been successful and we were the first tenants group to be awarded £400,000 provided we secured the moral and financial support from our landlord — Glasgow District Council . |
| 16 | There were places where we were the first Westerners ever to have been seen , though we pre-existed in their racial memory as ugly , dominating invaders . |
| 17 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 18 | We were the first tour operator with overseas centres recognised by the Royal Yachting Association ( RYA ) for tuition . |
| 19 | Although we did not know it , we were the first white men he allowed into his home other than on business . |
| 20 | WE were the first to tip you off about Ryan Giggs , who has become a household name at Manchester United … now we 're telling you to watch out for another youngster . |
| 21 | We put the staff in costumes instead of uniforms and we were the first to really ‘ love ’ children while other restaurants tolerated them . ’ |
| 22 | We were the first union in nineteen seventy six to come out with our policy on the then Race Relations Act it 's always been a trade union issue whether it was the trade unions in Germany in the twenties and thirties fighting Hitlerism and Nazi-ism or whether it was the trade unions fighting Moseley and his black shirts in Britain it has always been part of our ideals and principles . |
| 23 | In January we were the first union to issue briefing notes on all six key health and safety regulations enacted at the beginning of the year we were the only trade union to put on a stand at the EuroSafe ninety three exhibition which was the main exhibition of the European year of health and safety this promoted the union 's approach to health and safety . |
| 24 | as if we were the first visitors here . |
| 25 | We were the first back into the changing-rooms and we dumped our holsters and visors on the folding table near the door . |
| 26 | Outside London we were the first L E A to realise that this would be necessary . |
| 27 | Er , b , but we were the first company , back in , I think 1987 , to bring out living insurance . |
| 28 | It 's Abbey Number One , Abbey , Abbey Life is Number One for Claims , because we were the first company er , if I put it over there now , it will stop me collecting it and taking in out . |
| 29 | ‘ We were the first to consider the social implications of planning and did n't want one vast sprawl . |
| 30 | We are committed to replacing CFCs in refrigeration by the end of 1996 and , when Basildon opened in August , we were the first supermarket retailer in Europe to introduce an ozone benign refrigerant . |