Example sentences of "[pers pn] was the [num ord] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we — I realised right away that I was the first man to … |
| 2 | Heaven itself opened up for me when we made love and I knew I was the first man in your life . |
| 3 | Do n't you see , as far as I knew , I was the first man ever to be displaced in time , though no doubt the timeslips were now making a regular thing of it . |
| 4 | ‘ And I was the last man off of 17,000 because I was still in the bus when they all went to the start . ’ |
| 5 | But it was the second man who riveted Joan 's attention . |
| 6 | He was the first man I ever thought of partnering . ’ |
| 7 | He was the first man I ever really looked at . |
| 8 | He was the first man in nearly twenty years to have a full-face mug-shot on the cover of Surfer . |
| 9 | He was the first man ever to enter The Sanctuary in Covent Garden , London after TODAY smuggled him in . |
| 10 | Already , briefly , holder of the world 's flying-start kilometre ( 152.33 m.p.h. on Southport Sands in 1926 ) , he was the first man to travel at 200 m.p.h. over the mile : on 29 March 1927 at Daytona Beach , Florida , driving the huge chain-driven Sunbeam , powered by two World War I Matabele 22½-litre aero-engines , designed by Coatalen , he averaged 203.988 m.p.h. over the mile . |
| 11 | He was the first man to organize an eight hour day , and two weeks ' vacation with pay . |
| 12 | He was the second man in two days to ask me that . |
| 13 | He told himself that he was the last man who could reasonably be expected to advise or reassure on the problems of pregnancy and he sensed that Rickards 's unhappiness at his wife 's absence went deeper than missing her company . |
| 14 | He was the last man in the world with the guts to deceive his wife . |
| 15 | I would n't marry Matthew Choak if he was the last man on earth . ’ |
| 16 | He thought she was Garry 's lover , and he was the last man to want another man 's discarded lover . |
| 17 | He was a self-opinionated , overbearing tyrant , and he was the last man she should want to tangle with . |