Example sentences of "he [was/were] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 2 | He was on the first train into London and founded the earliest Railway Magazine in 1835 . |
| 3 | He was among the first generation of British artists to respond favourably , through their own art , to the ideas of Picasso , Braque , Miro and their circle . |
| 4 | A graduate of Westminster Hotel School , ( where he was winner of the HCIMA 's premier student prize , the Sir Francis Towle Award ) he was among the first intake in Forte 's executive management trainee programme . |
| 5 | He was in the first Section I was in . |
| 6 | One was from erm from Baghdad to Barqu and the other one was from Barqu to Basrah because he was in the First World War , I think he was serving with the Middlesex Regiment and erm , I do n't know how he managed this , I never did understand . |
| 7 | That 's how he was in the first place though . |