Example sentences of "[conj] she [was/were] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She attended Wellesley College where she was the first student to deliver the graduation address . |
| 2 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 3 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 4 | And she was the first teacher and there was Mi Mr who was the head teacher . |
| 5 | If she were the last lassie in the world I couldny |
| 6 | If she was the last woman on the face of the earth I would n't fuck her ! ’ |
| 7 | This was no small step for one so young but for a woman it was more remarkable since she was the first woman solicitor in Sheffield . |
| 8 | There was no looking back ; I wanted to remember Fiona as she was the last time we met , standing in the doorway of the croft , her black hair blowing in the breeze as she waved me goodbye . |