Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it was with the help of Phil Andrews , who was No.1 on Venturous at that time , with Bob Wellock , an ex air/sea RAF coxswain from Liverpool Customs in command whom I was meeting for the first time . |
| 2 | I was born into the first generation of women who could actually choose — without risking death in an illegal abortion — when and whether we would have children . |
| 3 | I was thinking of the first one which was reproduced in Herbert Read . |
| 4 | ‘ I told them I was leaving after the first gig and it was this bloke from Dik Dik Dimorphic who was going on at me saying that I should n't leave . |
| 5 | I was abused for the first time at three years old . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ No , I was barred after the first one . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was asked for the first time last week what I 'd do if we got into the Premier League . |
| 9 | In a way I was happy : I had achieved something , I was winning for the first time in my life , and I had a strong sense of myself as a differentiated individual . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |