Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the first person " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was the first person to take him simply as he was , and for that he showed his gratitude by giving me a light kiss on the cheek in the darkened carriage . |
| 2 | I guess I was the first person to develop the idea of the modular system : ie. everything from the preamp to the power amp was modular . |
| 3 | I was the first person the Iranians contacted . |
| 4 | I was the first person in a nun 's care to get pregnant I 'm famous ! |
| 5 | I was the first person she turned to when she found herself pregnant . ’ |
| 6 | Gary says : I was the first person to go solo . |
| 7 | ‘ I bought them in Italy ( I was the first person in England to wear tinted glasses — Prince Philip had them after me ) and the little girl in the shop used to say , ‘ Dad , Dad , that 's Roy Orbison ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Yes , she was the first person who made me realise that acting was more than just speaking and doing . |
| 9 | I told her she was the first person to see it since I started work on it . |
| 10 | She was the first person I met when I joined the Waaf , and the last person I saw as I left it . |
| 11 | She was the first person to say to me , ‘ Do n't go through life saying , if only … ’ |
| 12 | Surprisingly , others looked brand new , as if he was the first person to walk along them . |
| 13 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 14 | So he was the first person who united the states of Castille and Leon , and the first who was called King of Castille ; for till this time the lords of that country had been called Counts . |
| 15 | He was the first person to bring Prize Ring fighting to America . |
| 16 | He was the first person who 'd ever really bothered about her . |
| 17 | From this treatise and other evidence , it can be deduced that Dom Pérignon achieved the following innovations : he was the first person in Champagne to produce a truly red wine ; the first person to produce a perfectly limpid white wine from black grapes ; he invented the traditional Champagne press ; perfected the art of blending wines from many different vineyards to produce one consistent and superior cuvée , or blend ; reintroduced the cork-stopper to France ; and pioneered the use of stronger English glass to withstand the internal pressure generated by sparkling wine . |
| 18 | Samuel Fox Esq was born in 1815 , and when he died in 1887 he was the first person to be buried in the cemetery attached to the church . |
| 19 | He was the first person in the Soviet Union who realized what the avant-garde meant in terms of world art , as he set about searching for and collecting drawings , pictures , canvases … |
| 20 | He was the first person , so far as we know , to record the fact that the tentacles of the common sundew are capable of movement . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In his Essay on Population in 1803 he was the first person to consider what would happen if the world 's population were to continue to grow unabated . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was the first person to visit her after her divorce in 1963. ’ — PA |