Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was injured in the first match with Portsmouth at Fratton Park I did n't expect to be playing again in a fortnight . |
| 2 | In the school , I was told in the First Aid that you could always tell a fractured femur ( which happened with elderly women as a rule ) . |
| 3 | And as a result of that David Phillips who as I was saying in the first half has proved himself to be a very valuable all-rounder already to Forest has slotted back in at centre back again and that Garry Crosby has come on as substitute and taken up his usual position and Phillips ' first half position on the right wing . |
| 4 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 5 | Their inspired utterances , which were cast in the first person as direct statements by the Paraclete , were collected . |
| 6 | The church councils which were called in the first three decades of the fifteenth century gave each side reason and opportunity to seek support for its own attitude to the war before the remainder of Christendom . |
| 7 | By 1986 there were just over 2,800 establishments in the 23 British zones , 70 per cent of which were located in the first designations of Swansea , Tyneside , Corby , the Isle of Dogs , Wakefield , Dudley , Speke , Clydebank , Salford — Trafford and Hartlepool . |
| 8 | In addressing this issue , Bentham foreshadowed , inter alia , both the work on orthodox organisation and management theory which was developed in the first three decades of this century ( Hume , 1981 p 6 ) and that on space planning which has followed ( Lipman et al , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | One important objective of counselling was to improve communication within the family , which was achieved in the first session when the therapist took a supportive but firm approach and encouraged the patient to talk to her parents then . |
| 10 | The fact that virtually all of them cross the Roman road , which was created in the first century AD , suggests that at least some of these features were there in the landscape before the road was built ; here , as elsewhere , it looks as if the road was put in arbitrarily across the landscape with little heed to existing features , much as when new roads and motorways are built today . |
| 11 | In the redrawn footnote to section 7(5) in Stone 's Justices ' Manual , 123rd ed. , the editors refer to this authority , but do not repeat the view which was contained in the first section of the footnote in the earlier editions . |
| 12 | These casualty totals have to be set against the continuing growth in traffic which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 13 | Clearly , this will be related in some degree to the increase in the number of people owning and driving cars which was reported in the first Plan . |
| 14 | After a hesitant start , the other leftwing and progressive parties who were defeated in the first round have joined Mr Da Silva 's campaign , along with the Socialist and Communist parties , which already supported him in the Popular Front coalition . |
| 15 | A parliamentary campaign has been launched to officially pardon hundreds of British soldiers who were executed in the First World War for desertion and cowardice . |
| 16 | A bill to grant posthumous pardons to all three hundred and seven British soldiers who were executed in the first world war , has gained a formal first reading in the house of commons . |
| 17 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 18 | She was riding in the first day of the Tythrop Horse Trials at Kingsey in Buckinghamshire when the accident happened . |
| 19 | And they 've er they 've both died and one was killed in the First World War . |
| 20 | To stay in existence , each of these communities must constantly remind us and themselves , of the violence through which they were subjugated in the first place . |
| 21 | For instance , when the accountant produces the band 's first accounts , and files them with the Inland Revenue , the invoices for the band 's musical equipment may need to be produced so that the accountant may obtain tax relief for these items , although they were purchased in the first stage of a band 's life . |
| 22 | They were recovered in the first salvage expedition to the wreck since 1987 . |
| 23 | Eighteen of them were killed in the first stage of the pursuit , 5 were later " cutdown in the highways " and 2 more at Gidom . |
| 24 | And it was killed in the first one , that was two . |
| 25 | And the fact is that with the money available erm the Gardener Centre I should think it 's not possible to use it in the kind of flexible way in which it was planned in the first years . |
| 26 | In its defence the computer points out that the problem lies not in its answer but in the question it was asked in the first place . |
| 27 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
| 28 | Rather it is a socially constructed form whose ‘ influence ’ depends on how it was shaped in the first place . |
| 29 | The correct word was included about 60% of the time , although it was found in the first position of the list of alternatives only 18% of the time . |
| 30 | Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place . |