Example sentences of "she [was/were] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , she was the first person who made me realise that acting was more than just speaking and doing . |
| 2 | I told her she was the first person to see it since I started work on it . |
| 3 | She was the first British prime Minister to mount a sustained challenge to post-war consensus politics and , more than any other post-war Prime Minister , she is often regarded as a figure apart from her Cabinet . |
| 4 | She was the first of a line of ‘ nymphets ’ who would also include Carroll Baker in Baby Doll and be raised to the permanence of art in Nabokov 's Lolita . |
| 5 | It is entirely fitting that Dawn Run should share the statuary honours with the other two Cheltenham legends , for she was the first — and to date the only — horse to win both the Champion Hurdle and the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 6 | She was the first Siamese twin of her kind after an operation in March 1985 performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital by Prof Spitz . |
| 7 | Yourcenar ( an anagram on the family name of Crayencour ) was not an academic , but as one of France 's most highly-regarded novelists , she was the first woman to be elected to the French Academy . |
| 8 | In his foreword to the book , Professor Sir Robert Birley says of Janet Lacey : ‘ One meets energetic people and unorthodox people and efficient people , but it is rare to meet them making up one person … add to that the power to speak forcefully and clearly … she was the first woman to preach in St Paul 's and Liverpool Cathedral and St George 's Cathedral in Jerusalem … she is also exceedingly good company … |
| 9 | Robert Halsband writes : ‘ Mrs. Yearsley was not the first of those whom Robert Southey called ‘ Our Uneducated Poets ’ but she was the first notable woman among them . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In 1955 she was the first black person to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House , New York . |
| 12 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 13 | She was the first person I met when I joined the Waaf , and the last person I saw as I left it . |
| 14 | She was the first woman sculptor , and only deaf woman , to be made a member of any Royal Academy in the British Isles . |
| 15 | She was the first athlete that I could identify myself with ; she was always in the news . |
| 16 | She was the first person to say to me , ‘ Do n't go through life saying , if only … ’ |
| 17 | Not only was she was the first woman ever to gain the imperial throne by her own machinations , she was also the first to institute the practice of official cunnilingus . |
| 18 | She was the first witness to some of the most distressing scenes between the Prince and Princess of Wales , and was determined that the same mistakes would not be repeated when another newcomer joined the firm . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To nine patients out of ten she was the first hospital sister with whom they had been confronted , and the great majority , when they walked , were pushed , or were carried for the first time through the double doors of our main entrance , were very apprehensive and trying to hide the fact . |
| 21 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 22 | But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day . |
| 23 | Chicago-born , she was the first woman graduate of London School of Economics ; widely travelled , she lived ‘ a romantic life ’ , and nursed Woolley lovingly in his final years . |
| 24 | She was the first patient I saw with pseudochyluria . |
| 25 | She was the first woman jeweller to win a Council of Industry Design award in 1972 . |
| 26 | This was no small step for one so young but for a woman it was more remarkable since she was the first woman solicitor in Sheffield . |
| 27 | She was the first girl after my sisters to affect me . |
| 28 | She was the first of the laibon 's four wives many years ago . |
| 29 | Far less celebrated is the fact that she was the first contemporary British artist to win the international prize for painting at the Venice Biennale in 1968 . |
| 30 | in 1971 she was the first contemporary artist to have a major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery , curated by Bryan Robertson . |