Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [be] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She attended Wellesley College where she was the first student to deliver the graduation address . |
| 2 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 3 | Summarising prospects for a US-Soviet summit , Baker said : " I think we are right where we were the last time . " |
| 4 | But down in the Aldwych was the London School of Economics , where there were the first stirrings of student revolt , English-style , and to which the medical student often made his way . |
| 5 | Yusuf who , at the 50-akce level , served as muderris/mufti successively in Larende , Amid , Aleppo , Seyitgazi and again in Aleppo , in which last post he died in 1981/1573 ; of Molla Akmal al-Din ( Ekmeleddin ) , muderris/mufti between 972/1565 and his death in 983/1575 successively in Kefe , Rhodes and Cyprus , where he was the first muderris/mufti after the conquest ( 978–9/1570–1 ) with 60 akce a day ; and of Molla Yalaya al-Ajami who , after teaching at the haric level at the medrese of Sultan Orhan in Iznik , went on to the muderris/muftiliks of Seyitgazi , Aleppo and Damascus , dying in the last-named post in 986/1578 . |
| 6 | Because I was going to the hospital wing I did n't get taken up until about nine o'clock , so I was the last one . |
| 7 | ‘ So I was the last one to see her ? ’ said Coffin . |
| 8 | She subscribed on the face of it to the proposition that we are not put here to be happy , although she was the first to complain if she , or the few people she loved , were not . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's Captain America 's big birthday in 1992 , 50 years or something , so we were the last thing Marvel wanted around . |
| 10 | Although it is the second aspect which concerns speechreaders , you may be interested to share some discoveries made by the 1979 study group from their own experience , and from my own experience since 1972 . |
| 11 | Mrs Bennett would have a fit if she knew Celia had gone up to Beckwith 's Folly , but it was n't the first time lately that she had been overwhelmed by the desire to escape , although it was the first time she had actually done anything about it . |
| 12 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 13 | Well , I could hardly say no , although it was the last thing I wanted . |
| 14 | Although it was the last thing on their minds . |
| 15 | Although he was the first to use motor transport on an extensive scale in Lewis — many a time as a youngster I ran a mile to see his fleet of yellow Fords — he failed to see that the advent of the bus made it possible for the crofter to live in the country and work in the town . |
| 16 | Although he was the first artist to depict Australia in an original , Australian way , he was largely rejected by his own countrymen after 1955 when he came to live in England . |
| 17 | If yours is the first winning entry out of the hat then we 'll be in touch right away . |
| 18 | ‘ Would n't it be funny if I was the next Lady Mellor ? ’ she giggled to a friend in the heat of her affair with the Cabinet Casanova . |
| 19 | Well I think you can go home now cos I was the last . |
| 20 | It was only a ten minute thing , and everybody , cos I was the last one , of course , out of us , a group of twenty , and was so like freezing at the top of this mountain , I was n't exactly popular . |
| 21 | If she were the last lassie in the world I couldny |
| 22 | She asked me if any of my other friends knew , which they did n't , and she encouraged me to tell them , saying that if she was the last one in the circle then all the others should know . |
| 23 | If she was the last woman on the face of the earth I would n't fuck her ! ’ |
| 24 | If you 're the first correct entry out of the hat we 'll be straight on the phone to give you the good news and arrange the presentation . |
| 25 | Then all you have to do to win this exclusive guitar is to answer the following six questions and , if you 're the first correct entry out of the hat , this incredible instrument is yours . |
| 26 | It 's as if you 're the first person she 's told her secret to in years . |
| 27 | Find out if you 're the next Bateman . |
| 28 | If you were the last woman left alive on this bloody earth , I think I 'd rather do it for myself . |
| 29 | ‘ I would n't go with you if you were the last man on earth . ’ |
| 30 | I wonder what it would be like if you were the last man in the world , and I the last woman ? |