Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] be [art] first " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've some wonderful news , ’ said Phil , ‘ and I want you to be the first to know .
2 With this second novel , Amy Tan has again proved herself to be a first class writer , one who can write books which not only have enormous popular appeal , but also teach us something new about the human condition .
3 Late last week , Hewlett-Packard Co released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems .
4 This week it introduced HP Distributed Smalltalk , claiming it to be the first complete implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification for distributed computing .
5 Hewlett-Packard Co has released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems .
6 ‘ Nicole and I are getting married , ’ said Sir Vivien , ‘ and we wanted you to be the first to know .
7 But I wanted you to be the first I told . ’
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