Example sentences of "he [was/were] the first [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the first friend I made in the West Riding , when we were both new to the cold Yorkshire wastes . |
| 2 | He was the first man I ever thought of partnering . ’ |
| 3 | He was the first man I ever really looked at . |
| 4 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 5 | With his gruff , Cockney drawl and lack of pretentiousness , he was the first person he had met on the production side of TV London who was not part of the middle-class mafia , and who seemed relaxed and at ease with himself . |
| 6 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 7 | So he was the first person who united the states of Castille and Leon , and the first who was called King of Castille ; for till this time the lords of that country had been called Counts . |
| 8 | He was the first person who 'd ever really bothered about her . |
| 9 | He was the first surgeon who operated exclusively on children and was the founder of modern paediatric surgery in England . |
| 10 | He was the first guy I ever saw in military clothes before the main craze for the mods dressing up in military uniforms went on . |
| 11 | His French aside , he was the first guy who understood immediately one of my pitiful Arabic sentences — so perhaps he was n't that simple after all . |