Example sentences of "[pn reflx] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |
| 2 | Jeff Winter of Middlesbrough found himself the first guinea pig . |
| 3 | He was himself the first discoverer of that ‘ morbidity of temperament ’ . |
| 4 | As season 72/73 arrived , a passing shopper , Mrs Hilda Sheppey ( 58 ) , suddenly found herself the first manageress in football history . |
| 5 | So it was the bait piled in by J.J. and myself the first night of a season in the early 1970s . |
| 6 | This is a little trick with which my daughter Carla amazed both my elder son and myself the first time I saw it . |
| 7 | We can sum up the thread of the argument here by saying that binary oppositions , such as masculine/feminine , are not themselves the first principles of semantics and human cognition , they are a system grafted on in the attempt to analyse those things . |
| 8 | I knew that Syl 's mother , like my own , would consider talking to yourself the first sign of madness . |
| 9 | Is n't talking to yourself the first sign ? |