Example sentences of "he was [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was probably the first deaf man in the world to do so . |
| 2 | He was not the first black to play in a tournament sponsored by the American P.G.A . |
| 3 | And none of the Sicilian tyrants before Agathokles ( end of the fourth century ; he was also the first Sicilian to call himself basileus , king ) put his own name on his coinage — contrast the HIΠ-issue of Hippias of Athens ( B. V. Head ( 1911 ) Historia numorum , Oxford , edn 2 , p. 377 ) , admittedly a coinage struck in exile at Sigeion , c.500 BC , but one which shows that the idea of a coin with an individual 's name on it was at least thinkable that early . |
| 4 | He was merely the first famous one . |
| 5 | But he was hardly the first good-looking man she 'd had dinner with . |