Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [am/are] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean listen I 'm the first person to talk in in support of body piercing I look I have parts of my body pierced I like it but I do n't think standing around the street corners sort of revealing it is a nice thing to do . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , come on , you do n't really think you 're the first man who 's issued me this kind of invitation ? ’ |
| 3 | But you have come , I am told , became we are the first place on earth to get the dawn . |
| 4 | you know you 're the first priority and I |
| 5 | , Al Mutlaq 's divisional manager , saw immediate benefits : ‘ We believe we are the first company in the region to get this equipment . |
| 6 | I bet I 'm the first to realise ! |
| 7 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 8 | You think I 'm the first girl ever to meet a man in secret ? |
| 9 | And whichever sort they happen to be , they always think they 're the first of their kind . |
| 10 | Though this technology is well-established in medicine , researchers in Japan 's electric power industry think they are the first to take tomography outdoors . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm proud to say I 'm the first member of my family to join the Labour Party . |