Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
| 2 | ‘ An American , Harry Hebner , was the first man to use it in major competition when he won a gold medal in the 1912 Olympics , and I was the first British title holder . |
| 3 | The baby soon learns that her presence is necessary for the satisfaction of its needs and she is the first individual " other " whom the infant recognises . |
| 4 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
| 5 | The event gave him a place in world headlines , and he was the first classical pianist to win a platinum disc for sales exceeding a million copies of a single record , for his recording of Tchaikovsky 's first piano concerto . |
| 6 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 7 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 8 | Although it included the Byzantine penalties of blinding and mutilation for certain offences , it was far in advance of the legal practices of many medieval states , and it was the first comprehensive legal code amongst the South Slavs . |
| 9 | Their dining room that Christmas of 1850 was the scene of a sumptuous dinner attended by family and friends , and it was the first important one at which Sarah Byrne was allowed to serve . |
| 10 | Robert Halsband writes : ‘ Mrs. Yearsley was not the first of those whom Robert Southey called ‘ Our Uneducated Poets ’ but she was the first notable woman among them . ’ |
| 11 | But we 're the first major company in Britain , so our is second to none , our experience with the contract is second to none . |
| 12 | ‘ The flights were flagrant violations of the no-fly zone but they were the first armed attacks recorded by the UN since shortly after the no-fly zone was instituted ’ last October , the State Department spokesman , Richard Boucher , said . |
| 13 | But he was the first grown-up person who assumed I could discuss ideas . |
| 14 | But it is the first possible answer that presents the immediate worry . |
| 15 | Ethernet was n't the first LAN standard , but it was the first that could claim to be non-proprietary ( many vendors sell Ethernet-compatible adaptors ) , cheap ( thanks to its use of readily available , low-cost cabling — telephone-wire twisted pair or TV-aerial co-ax ) , and flexible ( Ethernet is equally at home with small starter systems and huge network layouts ) . |
| 16 | The Ladder may lack the charm of some of the other works anthologised here but it was the first systematic and comprehensive account of the spiritual life to be written in English and its immediate popularity shows that it answered a real need . |