Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 2 | Not self-pity but exertion was what they told themselves was the first requirement , applying their skills to return to normal , to restore the status quo . |
| 3 | What can you mind what was the first sort of action on Hoy that impressed you cos Well you 'd been there all your life you would have really seen the whole process happening . |
| 4 | I mean we were the first show to put Demis Roussos on . |
| 5 | I guess I was the first person to develop the idea of the modular system : ie. everything from the preamp to the power amp was modular . |
| 6 | The transcription start sites for the P A2b and P A3 promoters analyzed by S1 mapping ( 13 ) indicated three contiguous possible start sites for each promoter that did not allow to determine which was the first nucleotide incorporated by the RNA polymerase , a problem frequently found with S1 mapping analysis . |
| 7 | I believe he was the first westerner to make contact with the Dalai Lama , who became a great friend . |
| 8 | I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own . |
| 9 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 10 | It was the first time we 'd had proper monitors on stage — which meant it was the first time John heard his own voice . |
| 11 | He smelt the scent of the roses , and realised it was the first time he had walked here , the first time he had looked at them , in four years . |
| 12 | Duncan realized it was the first time Myeloski had mentioned Oldenburg 's Russian origins . |
| 13 | And I realized it was the first time I actually slept in a bed with Frank ever . |
| 14 | That 's right and I believe , well I think he was the first goalkeeper to throw the ball out . |
| 15 | I think it was the first time you really spoke to me . |
| 16 | It 's like Miss , when she walks from the staff office to here , she could have four conversations and when she gets here she thinks what was the first conversation about again ? |
| 17 | Mr Vaz said it was the first initiative of its kind for 16 years . |
| 18 | Mr Vaz said it was the first initiative of its kind for 16 years . |
| 19 | The company said it was the first step towards a broadening of its geographic and product base which would reduce dependency on the UK and on shoes . |
| 20 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 21 | Announcing the award of £162,150 , Mr Justice Otton said it was the first time such an action had been brought . |
| 22 | He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’ |
| 23 | Philip Head , Chief Executive of the WDA , said it was the first time the agency had been asked to source Welsh suppliers for a company based in Germany and resulted directly from the WDA campaign to build business links with the motor regions of Europe . |
| 24 | , business director of Courtaulds Aerospace in Germany , said it was the first time in the world that a chromate-free coating had been given the go-ahead for civil aircraft manufacture . |
| 25 | And what 's going to happen what was the first way you can see . |
| 26 | As it was spinning which was the first textile process to be mechanised , it was women 's work which was the first to be taken away by machinery , threatened by the water frame in 1769 and by Hargreaves ' spinning jenny in 1770 , even before Crompton 's mule came into use in the 1780s . |