Example sentences of "first [noun sg] [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first action had been in Greece in late 1940 : ‘ We soon went to the border , and the Germans invaded from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia which they had romped through . |
| 2 | In response , First Edition project director Mark Hodder-Williams said that First Edition had been in operation for nine months , and had successfully provided users with an efficient , fast computer-to-computer service for exchanging a wide range of commercial documents . |
| 3 | The first device found was in a toy shop . |
| 4 | My first appearance had been in the Junior Indoor Championships the previous year , when I had been eliminated in the heats . |
| 5 | The first move had been in his choice of the katana as the weapon of combat . |
| 6 | The first time had been in anger — the second time something very different . |