Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the first living contact to consult , Coffin thought , lying back in his hard bed under Mrs Lorimer 's roof . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I am the first human being he has seen since he was posted to this backwater . |
| 4 | If yours is the first winning entry out of the hat then we 'll be in touch right away . |
| 5 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
| 6 | I was the first British person most of them had met and they see me as a bridge to the outside world , ’ she said . |
| 7 | ‘ An American , Harry Hebner , was the first man to use it in major competition when he won a gold medal in the 1912 Olympics , and I was the first British title holder . |
| 8 | His was the first correct solution selected and he knew the Premier League teams who have not played in European competitions are Crystal Palace , Wimbledon , Oldham , Norwich , Sheffield United , Middlesbrough and Blackburn . |
| 9 | His was the first correct solution selected and he knew that Berlin ( 1916 ) , Tokyo then Helsinki ( 1940 ) and London ( 1944 ) were the VIth , XIIth and XIIIth Olympiads . |
| 10 | His was the first reported execution in several months for an offence related to the ‘ counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ . |
| 11 | If you 're the first correct entry out of the hat we 'll be straight on the phone to give you the good news and arrange the presentation . |
| 12 | Then all you have to do to win this exclusive guitar is to answer the following six questions and , if you 're the first correct entry out of the hat , this incredible instrument is yours . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're the first honest girl I 've met . |
| 14 | You 're the first non-Jewish girl I 've ever said more than ‘ Nice day ’ to . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh no , darling , you did n't think you were the first clever little bitch to have the idea ? |
| 16 | You were the first blind person to be employed in the County Council ? |
| 17 | The baby soon learns that her presence is necessary for the satisfaction of its needs and she is the first individual " other " whom the infant recognises . |
| 18 | She was the first Siamese twin of her kind after an operation in March 1985 performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital by Prof Spitz . |
| 19 | Far less celebrated is the fact that she was the first contemporary British artist to win the international prize for painting at the Venice Biennale in 1968 . |
| 20 | in 1971 she was the first contemporary artist to have a major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery , curated by Bryan Robertson . |
| 21 | She was the first Labour candidate to be returned for that constituency and the first woman MP for a Liverpool seat . |
| 22 | In 1955 she was the first black person to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House , New York . |
| 23 | ‘ She was the first Sabine . |
| 24 | Robert Halsband writes : ‘ Mrs. Yearsley was not the first of those whom Robert Southey called ‘ Our Uneducated Poets ’ but she was the first notable woman among them . ’ |
| 25 | She was the first British prime Minister to mount a sustained challenge to post-war consensus politics and , more than any other post-war Prime Minister , she is often regarded as a figure apart from her Cabinet . |
| 26 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
| 27 | But we 're the first major company in Britain , so our is second to none , our experience with the contract is second to none . |
| 28 | For what it 's worth , I *think* we 're the first automatic listserv list for a British football club . |
| 29 | And er we er ploughed through this until tonight , and er I think I 'm right , Mr returning officer , say that we 're the first Euro constituency in the northwest to get to this stage . |
| 30 | Although we did not know it , we were the first white men he allowed into his home other than on business . |