Example sentences of "who have been [art] first " in BNC.

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1 The young , nervous and over-eager man who 'd been the first of her assignments for Charlie .
2 Despite them the withdrawal went smoothly , with the Colonel , who had been the first man ashore , the last man off , just behind Charley Head , who , as signals officer , had kept up a stream of messages , 40 an hour at one point , that included reassuring but unproven ‘ going well ’ reports .
3 It was obviously different from the religion of Jesus , as far as we understand it , and also from the Jewish vision of St Paul , who had been the first to bring the semitic faith to the hellenistic world of the Roman empire .
4 The dissident who had been the first to speak to Holly talked the hesitant monologue of revolution .
5 It was Canning , after all , who had been the first virtuoso of diplomacy by public opinion .
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