Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love to go out dancing but you wo n't catch me being the first on the dance floor ! |
| 2 | Campaigners say it 's the first step towards closure , but BR says it 's actually planning to spend more money on the line , not less . |
| 3 | Customs officers say it 's the first time European green law has been used in Britain this way . |
| 4 | Customs men say it 's the first time they 've used Cites to seize timber |
| 5 | Soviet strikes point to crisis of morale that threatens future of perestroika Broadcasts of parliament get more viewers than Agatha Christie films It is the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike . |
| 6 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 7 | I mean listen I 'm the first person to talk in in support of body piercing I look I have parts of my body pierced I like it but I do n't think standing around the street corners sort of revealing it is a nice thing to do . |
| 8 | Pliny names Archermos in a family of Chiot sculptors , and another writer says he was the first to give Nike wings . |
| 9 | It says it 's the first product to fully support the Intel Express motherboard architectures with DEC 's high-performance graphics , SCSI and networking chipsets and adapters . |
| 10 | Slater also says it 's the first and only time he 's ever seen clock ratings take such baby steps — 33 to 40 to 45 to 50 . |
| 11 | Internal trimming allows a claim of better than +-0.25% multiplication error with no external trim and AD says it is the first type to offer fully differential , high input-impedance working on all inputs , including the Z input . |
| 12 | Citizen , which developed it , says it is the first watch to have a built-in radio that tunes to time broadcasts linked to highly accurate atomic clocks . |
| 13 | Compaq Computer Corp says it is the first major personal computer manufacturer to receive a 1993-1994 US General Services Administration Schedule contract , which runs to March 31 1994 and makes it easier for the federal government to buy Compaq products at pre-set prices . |
| 14 | It is also said to be the largest UK supplier of Unix and open systems training , and ICL says it is the first company to receive accreditation from Unix International Inc for its portfolio of Unix courses . |
| 15 | Candle says it has successfully tested key DCE components within its Distributed Computing Server component in an MVS-OS/2 client-server environment and says it is the first implementation of DCE on an MVS system . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , come on , you do n't really think you 're the first man who 's issued me this kind of invitation ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Oh no , darling , you did n't think you were the first clever little bitch to have the idea ? |
| 18 | ‘ Anyhow , since the earliest Mr Gajdusek will see me is the first week in April , it could n't have worked out better . ’ |
| 19 | As it happened I was the first to reach the meeting place , and soon , four others turned up . |
| 20 | Iberia reckons it is the first European carrier to offer flights from America to third countries . |
| 21 | Providing something that is high on most corporate users ' wish lists , Hewlett-Packard Co has come up with an SQL-based interface that can read and update data in a non-relational network database , and reckons it is the first vendor to do so . |
| 22 | Sun will claim it 's the first machine capable of running an entire database out of main memory . |
| 23 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 24 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 25 | Many critics suspect it is the first stage in the construction of the repository itself , a highly controversial project . |
| 26 | From the foam on it I guessed it was the first out of the keg that evening . |
| 27 | When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years . |
| 28 | But you have come , I am told , became we are the first place on earth to get the dawn . |
| 29 | I mean we were the first show to put Demis Roussos on . |
| 30 | When I made love to you , and then , even more devastating , discovered I was the first , that you 'd chosen me to be your first lover , it was like … capturing the castle , stealing the Crown Jewels … ’ |