Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ? |
| 2 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 3 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |
| 4 | She wanted him to plead with her to stay with him , forever , as he 'd done once before , but this time she would accept and tell him how wrong she had been the first time . |
| 5 | It was Canning , after all , who had been the first virtuoso of diplomacy by public opinion . |
| 6 | Despite them the withdrawal went smoothly , with the Colonel , who had been the first man ashore , the last man off , just behind Charley Head , who , as signals officer , had kept up a stream of messages , 40 an hour at one point , that included reassuring but unproven ‘ going well ’ reports . |
| 7 | We pray for those who are sad because it has been the first Christmas without a loved one , and who grieve with their memories . |
| 8 | It had been the first casino in modern Russia , had operated out of a converted bedroom on the second floor . |
| 9 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 10 | It had been the first time that he had really seen Sara in tears . |
| 11 | Sheppard , already famous as ‘ the radio parson ’ — he had been the first person to broadcast a church service — was Canon of St Pauls . |
| 12 | He had been the first serf-owner to take advantage of the reformist Law on Obligated Peasants . |
| 13 | Once he had been The First Hand Supreme in all Chung Kuo , Master of Masters and eight times winner of the great annual championship held in Suchow . |
| 14 | We 're passed that now we 're trying to give people more direction , get them involved er this is the first year we 've able to do it in a sense , properly cos it 's been the first year , with all due respect to all the work you 've done in the past , we 've got five year tutors . |
| 15 | It proved a fitting finale to what had been the first period of sustained fighting in the war . |