Sentence examples for was this first from inspiring English sources

Getting past them promises to be as tricky for Mr. Obama as was this first victory.

Mr Quelch took over at Cherwell.It was this first brush with business that encouraged Mr Quelch to take an MBA.

"It was this first slap of meeting an event in his life where it couldn't be undone.

There was a captain, there was this first officer, they were talking a lot about adventures and not having them as much as I would've liked.

But the general impression I took away, and which informed subsequent columns on suitably profound background, was this: First, Colin and Rummy came at just about every defense and foreign issue with a different mind-set.

What I served was this: First, a pasta niçoise -- it's one of those recipes that once you've cooked it, you can't believe you haven't ever done it before, but know you will again.

Was this, Seventh Avenue, home?

"Wait, is this First Avenue?" They left.

Was this the first day of empire?

WHERE was this news first reported?

Nor was this the first such incident.