Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] the [num ord] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I felt betrayed , ’ said Quinn , ‘ when I discovered I was n't the first man . |
| 2 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 3 | He was probably the first man to solo 8a on French rock ; made the first winter lone ascent of the South Face of the Aiguille du Fou ( scene of Alan Rouse 's famed injury during an earlier , summer , solo ) and also made one of the most prestigious ascents in the area with his solo of Divine Providence — Patrick Gabarrou 's 1984 desperate on the Grand Pilier d'Angle buttress on Mont Blanc . |
| 4 | He was also the first man to use the word ‘ Americanism ’ in 1781 . |
| 5 | He was only the second man she had ever slept with . |
| 6 | For this period he was the leader of the party which gave the Government nine-tenths of its majority , but he was only the third man in the hierarchy . |