Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] was [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Before , designer fragrances did n't exist , only in high-fashion houses , and I was the first to do it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | But there were some like Cathy 's er My chum was Cathy and it was her mother and she was a first class French French polisher you know , and her daughter was a French polisher who was a chum of mine and her son was a cabinet maker and er we used to laugh we used to say . |
| 5 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 8 | And she was the first teacher and there was Mi Mr who was the head teacher . |
| 9 | ‘ There were frequent calls for her services from all parts of the British Isles and she was the first to sing in Welsh on Dublin radio . ’ |
| 10 | The defensive headers of the tall , red-haired Roberts soon made him a familiar figure at Highbury , and he was the first defending centre-half to earn the name ‘ policeman ’ or ‘ stopper ’ . |
| 11 | The event gave him a place in world headlines , and he was the first classical pianist to win a platinum disc for sales exceeding a million copies of a single record , for his recording of Tchaikovsky 's first piano concerto . |
| 12 | Practical experience with stained glass must have led George Palmer to consider the nature of colour , and he was the first to put forward the modern theory of colour vision and colour blindness . |
| 13 | And he was the first mufti in the Ottoman state . " |
| 14 | ‘ Well , he was interested — and he was the first . |
| 15 | And he was the first and the only Republican or Democratic candidate to propose an international minimum wage . |
| 16 | Sadly , Marks did not last very long and he was the first of the Commanding Officers of the four founder squadrons to he lost in battle ; this was flat only great loss to the squadron , hut certainly to the Pathfinders . |
| 17 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 18 | His interest in politics came partly from it , and he was the first of a string of Thatcherite Tories to come from St Andrews . |
| 19 | And he was the first er , really , er boxer who became a celebrity . |
| 20 | And it was the first public result attributable to the second generation at Pininfarina , Pinin 's son Sergio and his brother-in-law , Renzo Carli . ’ |
| 21 | Its most important role at the time , however , in common with other dual-purpose breeds , was in the production of first-class veal and yarded ‘ baby beef ’ ( slaughtered at less than 15 months old ) and it was the first breed to be used for this trade because of its early maturity . |
| 22 | The Lincoln Red 's breed society has a pioneering spirit : it was the first to introduce beef recording and it was the first to dehorn its breed deliberately , dropping its ‘ Shorthorn ’ tag by 1960 . |
| 23 | The meeting was held in Harvey Haddon Stadium in Nottingham , and it was the first time that I had ever been on an Inter-City train . |
| 24 | Simon said , and it was the first time she had heard that name . |
| 25 | Their dining room that Christmas of 1850 was the scene of a sumptuous dinner attended by family and friends , and it was the first important one at which Sarah Byrne was allowed to serve . |
| 26 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 27 | But we did win and it was the first game of what will be a long and demanding season . |
| 28 | Mel Smith has been on the opening show of two series so far , and it was the first thing he mentioned . |
| 29 | To Gilbert Seldes the movie had ‘ no fixed form , no standards ’ and it was the first form ( of art and entertainment ) to be developed in the era of universal ( that is low-standard ) education . |
| 30 | we had a lot of affection for it really and , I mean we 've had it so long and it was the first furniture we had when we married |