Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [be] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Hey , do n't tell me I 'm the first to arrive ? ’
2 I was the head of the ‘ Linguistics Section ’ of the Department , and in 1974 this became the ‘ Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language ’ , of which I was the first head .
3 The great task , for someone such as Cis , was to make of her own house — a three-bedroom semi-detached in which they were the first occupiers — a place of comfort and gleaming triumph against the odds .
4 They were thus driving the wedge further and further into a division of labour from which they were the first to suffer .
5 And more positively , he found in mysticism , besides metaphysical delusions , which he is the first to castigate , yet an affirmation of the possibility of universal love and joy which is the apex of human achievement .
6 CD began writing up his travels for the Daily News , of which he was the first editor , and 8 ‘ Travelling Letters ’ appeared there between 21 Jan. and 11 Mar. 1846 , ending with the section entitled ‘ Piacenza to Bologna ’ in the book ; the ‘ Travelling Letters ’ were revised , and the remaining sections written for its publication as Pictures from Italy in May 1846 ( Bradbury & Evans , 1 vol . ) .
7 James Huntingford , an attorney of Odiham , was appointed secretary ; he was later to become secretary of the London committee , an executive offshoot of the Odiham Agricultural Society which was eventually to undertake the actual institution of the London Veterinary College , of which he was the first secretary .
8 At Cambridge his research centred around the embryology , anatomy , and taxonomy of Polyzoa and Cephalodiscus , for which he was the first of the Cambridge zoologists to use the binocular microscope .
9 The second is that it is in relation to this period that one finds a quite separate account of the origins of the Muftilik advanced , namely Katib Celebi 's view that the office originated not with Molla Fenari in Bursa or Fahreddin Acemi in Edirne but rather with Hizir Bey in Istanbul , the Muftilik being for his tenure , and for some time alter , a to the post of kadi of Istanbul , of which he was the first holder .
10 We worked together to form the committee for the release of Soviet Jewry , of which he was the first secretary and I the first chairman .
11 The stone church built by St Wilfrid in the seventh century enlarged the small monastery of which he was the second abbot .
12 Against such threats the ego has many defences , such as denial , distortion , forgetting , intellectualization , projection and so on ; and thus it comes about that , in the not uncommon tendency to confuse the theory with the fact of what is repressed , psychoanalysis itself is seen as a threat to the very process of repression which it was the first to discover and is itself subjected to these defensive reactions .
13 ‘ But if you 'd like me to be rude , I can assure you you 're the last person I wanted to bump into . ’
14 SIR JACOB : " T would have been strange indeed if someone had not translated this fine flower from the dunghill to the garden , Madam , let me tell you you are the first lady I have seen who has exceeded expectation .
15 Unfortunately the letter to Sarah Catt arrived first and it was she who was the first to break the news — by phone — to Charman , a circumstance that only added to the unpleasant situation .
16 Also it 's called another thing , heavenly Jerusalem with millions of angels in general assembly and the congregation of the first one which is the first fruits are n't they ?
17 Well they , they said at that meeting they 'd hoped to have their system for the next one which is the seventeenth October
18 because we we 're the third party we 're not allowed to appeal against it
19 I told her she was the first person to see it since I started work on it .
20 The red robe they gave her there was the first bright colour she had worn .
21 Tell him he 's the first one with the remote .
22 She asked him what was the first sentence he had ever learned in English .
23 But the class , as he himself was the first to tell you , the class , forget it .
24 He himself was the first , and most important , trade unionist to present evidence to the commission , and he made a powerful impression upon its members .
25 You ca n't ignore it it 's the first thing a buyer will , a buyer 's survey will pick up , especially as it was mentioned in our survey
26 Erm And let me remind everybody because I do n't intend erm erm er waiting for for people to cough up on this so I would like to remind people to get , it it 's the thirteenth today .
27 He he was the last resort of anybody I knew .
28 ca n't spell it what 's the third one called
29 ‘ If a painter asked me what was the first step necessary for painting a table ’ Picasso remarked to a friend at this time , ‘ I should say , measure it . ’
30 " So am I. It was the last thing I expected or wanted to happen . "
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