Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [art] first person " in BNC.

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1 I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around .
2 In 1928 she became the first person ever to swim the Straits of Gibraltar ( in 12 hrs. 50 min. ) , braving the perils of whirlpools , currents , and sharks .
3 AN EIGHT-MONTH-OLD girl from Lennoxtown , Stirlingshire , made British medical history yesterday when she became the first person to start gene therapy to combat a potentially fatal deficiency .
4 After his death , members of the wine trade enabled her to become the first person outside the trade to study for and sit its examinations .
5 He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) .
6 In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation .
7 Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving .
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