Example sentences of "was [prep] [pos pn] first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has always involved himself with the community and it was during his first term of office here that one of our cherished hopes came to fruition , a community centre for , called The Village Hall . |
| 2 | It was during my first year at university that I first came across it in a book by James Tyler Kent in a public library . |
| 3 | I was in my first year at Bedford . |
| 4 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 5 | ‘ I first heard about the race while I was in my first term at Exeter University , ’ she told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 6 | Also at the tournament were Manuel and Severiano Ballesteros , who was in his first year on the tour , and only eighteen years old . |
| 7 | Hunt was in his first season with McLaren when his talent influenced them to sign him as leader , after his former team , Hesketh , folded at the end of 1975 . |
| 8 | That there was sufficient evidence to establish the guilt of the first appellant on the basis of his own actings was from his first ground of appeal where it was stated : ‘ The evidence of what he himself did comes from his own statements corroborated by bloodstains found on his clothing ’ . |
| 9 | All her attention was on her first bite of bread which tasted as if it had come straight from Paradise . |
| 10 | The Soren Larson was on her first voyage for seven months when the accident happened . |
| 11 | The Marcus night junior , though at the start of her second year , was on her first spell of nights . |
| 12 | Paul Turner was on his first tour of duty in Northern Ireland when he was shot while on patrol . |
| 13 | Private Paul Turner was on his first tour of duty in Northern Ireland when he was killed . |
| 14 | ‘ It was afterwards discovered that the young Maltese soldier was on his first night as a sentry , with instructions to stop any passing car with his lamp and if the car did n't stop to fire his rifle over the top of it . |
| 15 | An illustration of deception by words is Banaster ( 1979 ) 68 Cr App R 272 ( CA ) , which held that a judge was entitled to leave to the jury the question whether a mini cab driver at Heathrow airport deceived a foreigner when he said that he was driving an " airport taxi " because the foreigner , who was on his first visit to England , might have thought that the taxi was an official one . |
| 16 | One abiding memory for me was on my first visit to his home in 1965 . |