Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] he [was/were] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe he was the first westerner to make contact with the Dalai Lama , who became a great friend . |
| 2 | Then the Reverend called , with his news about the weather turning stormy , and I thought he was the last person we needed to hear from . |
| 3 | That 's right and I believe , well I think he was the first goalkeeper to throw the ball out . |
| 4 | The Soyuz TM-13 flight which relieved him was the first to be undertaken since the demise of the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | But the assembly which shocked him was the next , at Evanston in the United States in 1954 . |
| 6 | And he was embarrassed further when he realised he was the last to finish . |