Example sentences of "[verb] was the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 2 | The functional lump he had seen was the first to disappear into Pete 's mouth . |
| 3 | There was no world war by September , but what did occur was the first major decline in the domestic popularity of his foreign policy . |
| 4 | ‘ What happened was the first recurrence of an experience she had not had since she was a child . |
| 5 | But what Brown had overlooked was the First Rule of the Conventional Car Maker : sell as many of the same cars as you can in order to make the most money for the least expenditure . |
| 6 | Following the success of the event , which we believe was the first of its kind in our field , we intend to hold a number of similar seminars in the future , for export and home-based customers , to confirm 's place as the leading flavour supplier to the crisp and snack industry throughout Europe . |
| 7 | ‘ What I saw was the first draft of the first letter . |
| 8 | But as Kenneth Connor told me , ‘ What she actually saw was the first full frontals ever on view during the making of a British film . |
| 9 | First one I mind was the first was the 's Bakery . |
| 10 | In what Western experts said was the first recognition of the extent of Kremlin military activity , Lieutenant-General Anatoly Sidorov listed Korea , Egypt , Syria , Angola and Ethiopia as other countries where Soviet troops fought . |
| 11 | Do n't Sing was the first single to chart , though it was n't until When Love Breaks Down was released for the second time in 1985 that things really started to happen . |