Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pos pn] first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Charles Morrison , Mr Simon Parker-Bowles , and Norman Squires , and his wife , the latter was enjoying her first visit to London ! |
| 2 | Raising her eyes to Rozanov , she asked in lighter tones how he was enjoying his first visit to England . |
| 3 | This was Silver , a nephew of the Threarah , who was serving his first month in the Owsla . |
| 4 | The current world champion , Blyth Tait , was paying his first visit to Poplar Park and was very satisfied with the performances of his trio , Messiah , Ricochet and Tempo . |
| 5 | They made a direct appeal to Mr Clarke as he was paying his first visit to a police station since taking over at the Home Office . |
| 6 | The 21-year-old was spending her first night at Sussex University , near Brighton , when she was woken at about 4am by a man who turned on the bedroom light , held a knife to her throat and raped her , before escaping through the open window by which he had entered . |
| 7 | Gispy Fiddler put Jonjo on cloud nine with a Royal Ascot win two years ago and was having his first run for almost a year when shaping well behind Bit Of A Lark at Haydock . |
| 8 | Others were on the edge of the storm and Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott had a wild ride with young Sub-Lieutenant White , who was having his first introduction to canoe reconnaissance . |
| 9 | She hopped all the way home , arms wide and waving as if she was taking her first lesson in tightrope walking . |
| 10 | Across the globe in that year , 1962 , 21-year old Richard Neville was taking his first step into journalism , editing the University of New South Wales student paper , Tharunka . |
| 11 | I was making my first inroads into a superb specimen of the amber fluid when Sally walked in . |
| 12 | The most cheerful remarks seemed to have been made about the health of Michael Heseltine , who was making his first appearance at the cabinet since his heart attack . |
| 13 | The 30-year-old Mandale Harrier was making his first appearance over the country for a year , but he broke clear on the second of the three laps of a gruelling nine kilometre course and held off a late challenge by Newton Aycliffe 's Kevin Vose to win by an emphatic 13 seconds . |
| 14 | After just six weeks , Rigby was playing her first gig behind Gedge and Solowka in a band called The Truth , who were obviously nothing to do with the chart group of the same name . |