Example sentences of "[art] first [noun] we had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first opportunity we had to try out the new personalisation facility with the agents ’ mailing . |
| 2 | ‘ It was Sheena Hawthorne , and it was the first time we had set eyes on each other for 50 years , ’ Betty says . |
| 3 | Visits supervisor Jenny Wallace said of the group : ‘ This was the first time we had welcomed a party from the Salvation Army . |
| 4 | This was the first time we had returned to Eggleston Burn since a summer visit in search of the Grass of Parnassus and butterwort that grow in its boggy flushes . |
| 5 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 6 | Yong and his father were the first people we had met who had actually been to Aru . |
| 7 | The first creature we had seen , a small turtle , was sunning itself on a rock as we climbed into a canoe and paddled and drifted round the green-speared edge of the lake . |
| 8 | The first thing we had to do was to repent of our childish attitude . |
| 9 | So I decided the first thing we had to do was define the difference between lead gear and bass gear , so we had to completely change the look . |
| 10 | The first thing we had to do , therefore , was to determine what counted as truancy . |