Example sentences of "first [noun] [pron] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in . |
| 2 | It 's the first day I 've been with them and I thought I do n't know . |
| 3 | This is the first time we 've been in a University . |
| 4 | It 's the first time we have been on a coach holiday and we were a bit apprehensive . |
| 5 | It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house . |
| 6 | This was the first time I had been to the house and it seemed enormous . |
| 7 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 8 | It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge . |
| 9 | It 's the first time I 've been to a game of footie in a Porsche , and it will probably be the last , but it was fun , and added to the enjoyment of another thoroughly enjoyable day out Leeds watching . |
| 10 | ‘ As this is the first time I 've been to Ca ’ del Leone , the answer must be no . ’ |
| 11 | I have to say this is the first time I 've been in this position since I took over . ’ |
| 12 | Every year several of the participants have said to me , ‘ I have been studying in Britain for a year , but this is the first time I have been inside a British home ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ No , but it is not the first time I have been in such a situation . |
| 14 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 15 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 16 | It was the first time she had been into the city since that awful night of the cockfight back in February . |
| 17 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 18 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 19 | Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife . |
| 20 | But then again , that 's the first time he 's been in ring since |