Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [was/were] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | That victory of ours was the first to which they gave less than their usual measure of approval . |
| 2 | Shut up Kim , it was alright like it was the first time |
| 3 | Our interview with her was the first news she had ever had that she had been the subject of a judgement summons . |
| 4 | The f the nurse before me was the first one . |
| 5 | The sugar plantations and the slaves on them were the first British overseas investment of any size , at a time when investment of this sort was unusual , and in several eighteenth-century wars the British fought to defend this property , though it was not a central cause of any of the wars in which they were involved . |
| 6 | The half-a-poster you sent to us was the FIRST half of a two-part poster which appeared in issue 79 of ZZAP ! |
| 7 | On Saturday they lost to Bath by 20 points to nil … and here 's a fact to blow your socks off it was the first time in 16 years and 420 games that the cherry and whites have failed to score at home |
| 8 | First I mind about it was the first zeppelin that came over . |