Example sentences of "that was [pos pn] first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Brentford won at Grimsby in the week and that was their first victory for weeks .
2 And that was your first posting as a principal .
3 Right so that was your first attempt at er a role play w what were your thoughts ?
4 That was our first attempt at a field kitchen We erm when we got back to s be stood down we was told by the er umpires that was stationed there that our headquarters had been wiped out .
5 That was my first day at Lowood .
6 That was my first experience with him , basically . ’
7 That was my first experience of Genesis and I loved it !
8 That was my first experience of electronic monitoring .
9 That was my first bit of bad luck .
10 Sorrel was on duty at her stall on the corner of the flea market , so that was my first port of call .
11 That was my first kiss from a woman .
12 That was my first touch with death .
13 That was my first impression of a city whose disastrous birth rate has made it the largest in the world , a vast expanse of concentrated housing broken only by open spaces of baked earth where the wind-blown dust swirled , and far away to port the snow-capped volcanic hulks of Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl towering huge through the burnt brown atmosphere .
14 Smart Tar has a 2lb advantage over Brown Windsor on the running in the SGB but as that was his first outing against three from Brown Windsor and four from Solidasarock , I prefer Smart Tar .
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