Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the first person [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was the first person she turned to when she found herself pregnant . ’ |
| 2 | She was the first person I met when I joined the Waaf , and the last person I saw as I left it . |
| 3 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 4 | With his gruff , Cockney drawl and lack of pretentiousness , he was the first person he had met on the production side of TV London who was not part of the middle-class mafia , and who seemed relaxed and at ease with himself . |
| 5 | 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 . |